Red Dawson
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Red Dawson is a central figure in the film "We Are Marshall," portrayed as a dedicated and conflicted football coach helping rebuild Marshall University's team after a tragic plane crash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Red Dawson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12769033 — 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: Red Dawson Context triple: [We Are Marshall, mainCharacter, Red Dawson]
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A.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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B.
Mitch McDeere
Mitch McDeere is an ambitious young Harvard-educated lawyer who becomes entangled in a corrupt law firm’s criminal activities in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Firm."
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C.
Eb Dawson
Eb Dawson is a naive but lovable farmhand and surrogate son to Oliver and Lisa Douglas on the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
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D.
Wylie Watson
Wylie Watson was a Scottish character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, often playing mild-mannered or eccentric figures.
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E.
Hunter McEwan
Hunter McEwan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname McEwan.
- 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: Red Dawson Target entity description: Red Dawson is a central figure in the film "We Are Marshall," portrayed as a dedicated and conflicted football coach helping rebuild Marshall University's team after a tragic plane crash.
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A.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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B.
Mitch McDeere
Mitch McDeere is an ambitious young Harvard-educated lawyer who becomes entangled in a corrupt law firm’s criminal activities in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Firm."
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C.
Eb Dawson
Eb Dawson is a naive but lovable farmhand and surrogate son to Oliver and Lisa Douglas on the classic American sitcom "Green Acres."
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D.
Wylie Watson
Wylie Watson was a Scottish character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, often playing mild-mannered or eccentric figures.
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E.
Hunter McEwan
Hunter McEwan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname McEwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Marshall University Thundering Herd football team
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linked to:
Marshall Thundering Herd football
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| appearsIn | We Are Marshall ⓘ |
| basedOn | William Alfred "Red" Dawson ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conflicted
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dedicated ⓘ |
| coaches |
Marshall Thundering Herd football team
ⓘ
linked to:
Marshall Thundering Herd football
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Marshall University ⓘ |
| eventConnectedTo | 1970 Marshall University football team plane crash ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | sports drama film ⓘ |
| hasCoachRole | assistant coach for Marshall University football team ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
assistant in rebuilding Marshall football program
ⓘ
survivor of Marshall University football team plane crash ⓘ |
| occupation | football coach ⓘ |
| partOf | We Are Marshall cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
emotionally affected by tragedy
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loyal to Marshall University ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matthew Fox ⓘ |
| relationshipToJackLengyel | assistant and colleague in rebuilding team ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central figure in the film We Are Marshall ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Huntington, West Virginia ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
grief and recovery after sports tragedy
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loyalty to team and community ⓘ survivor’s guilt ⓘ |
| worksWith | Jack Lengyel ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2006 ⓘ |
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: Red Dawson Description of subject: Red Dawson is a central figure in the film "We Are Marshall," portrayed as a dedicated and conflicted football coach helping rebuild Marshall University's team after a tragic plane crash.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.