Denny Colt
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Denny Colt is the masked vigilante alter ego known as The Spirit, a crime-fighting hero created by cartoonist Will Eisner.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Denny Colt canonical | 12 |
| Denny Colt / The Spirit | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2129627 — 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: Denny Colt Context triple: [The Spirit (2008 film), character, Denny Colt]
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A.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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B.
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
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C.
John Marston
John Marston was an English Renaissance dramatist and satirist best known for his darkly comic plays and involvement in the theatrical rivalries of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.
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D.
John Marston
John Marston is a fictional former outlaw and the playable protagonist of the video game Red Dead Redemption, known for his quest to leave behind his criminal past and protect his family in the fading American Old West.
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E.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
- 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: Denny Colt Target entity description: Denny Colt is the masked vigilante alter ego known as The Spirit, a crime-fighting hero created by cartoonist Will Eisner.
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A.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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B.
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
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C.
John Marston
John Marston was an English Renaissance dramatist and satirist best known for his darkly comic plays and involvement in the theatrical rivalries of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.
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D.
John Marston
John Marston is a fictional former outlaw and the playable protagonist of the video game Red Dead Redemption, known for his quest to leave behind his criminal past and protect his family in the fading American Old West.
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E.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Denny Colt Description of subject: Denny Colt is the masked vigilante alter ego known as The Spirit, a crime-fighting hero created by cartoonist Will Eisner.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Spirit
subject linked to:
Denny Colt
subject linked to:
The Spirit (character)
subject linked to:
The Spirit (character)
subject linked to:
The Spirit comic strip
subject linked to:
Ellen Dolan (The Spirit comic character)
subject linked to:
Ellen Dolan (The Spirit comic character)
linked to: Denny Colt