Eric Cruise
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Eric Cruise is the young wheelchair-using boy who befriends an alien in the 1988 science fiction film "Mac and Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Cruise canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11760185 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Cruise Context triple: [Mac and Me, hasMainCharacter, Eric Cruise]
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A.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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B.
Robert Reynolds
Robert Reynolds is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
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C.
Jeremy Reeves
Jeremy Reeves is an American songwriter and producer best known as a member of the Grammy-winning production team The Stereotypes, recognized for crafting hits for major pop and R&B artists.
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D.
Michael Parks
Michael Parks was an American character actor known for his intense, versatile performances in film and television, including frequent collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith.
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E.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Cruise Target entity description: Eric Cruise is the young wheelchair-using boy who befriends an alien in the 1988 science fiction film "Mac and Me."
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A.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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B.
Robert Reynolds
Robert Reynolds is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
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C.
Jeremy Reeves
Jeremy Reeves is an American songwriter and producer best known as a member of the Grammy-winning production team The Stereotypes, recognized for crafting hits for major pop and R&B artists.
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D.
Michael Parks
Michael Parks was an American character actor known for his intense, versatile performances in film and television, including frequent collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith.
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E.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mac and Me ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Mac and Me ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
family film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | McDonald’s promotional tie-ins ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay for Mac and Me ⓘ |
| befriends | MAC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Stewart Raffill ⓘ |
| familyName | Cruise ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Mac and Me universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac and Me
|
| firstAppearance |
Mac and Me (1988 film)
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linked to:
Mac and Me
|
| friendOf | MAC ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasDisability | paraplegia ⓘ |
| hasMother | Janet Cruise ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | student ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Debbie Cruise ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mobilityAid | manual wheelchair ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
adventurous despite disability
ⓘ
kind and empathetic toward aliens ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
helps reunite MAC with his family
ⓘ
involved in supermarket explosion scene ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jade Calegory ⓘ |
| residence | suburban Los Angeles area ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| targetAudienceAppeal | children ⓘ |
| uses | wheelchair ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1988 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Eric Cruise Description of subject: Eric Cruise is the young wheelchair-using boy who befriends an alien in the 1988 science fiction film "Mac and Me."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.