Dave Lyons
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Dave Lyons is a deaf man who becomes entangled in a murder investigation alongside his blind friend in the comedy film "See No Evil, Hear No Evil."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Lyons canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232326 — 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: Dave Lyons Context triple: [See No Evil, Hear No Evil, mainCharacter, Dave Lyons]
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A.
Dave McNally
Dave McNally was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his success with the Baltimore Orioles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including multiple World Series appearances and a landmark role in challenging the reserve clause.
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B.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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C.
Greg Mullavey
Greg Mullavey is an American actor best known for his role as Tom Hartman on the satirical 1970s television soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Mike Hunt
Mike Hunt is a name best known as a long-running prank or joke name in English-speaking popular culture due to its phonetic resemblance to a vulgar phrase.
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E.
David Burrows
David Burrows is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including The Lego Movie.
- 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: Dave Lyons Target entity description: Dave Lyons is a deaf man who becomes entangled in a murder investigation alongside his blind friend in the comedy film "See No Evil, Hear No Evil."
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A.
Dave McNally
Dave McNally was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his success with the Baltimore Orioles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including multiple World Series appearances and a landmark role in challenging the reserve clause.
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B.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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C.
Greg Mullavey
Greg Mullavey is an American actor best known for his role as Tom Hartman on the satirical 1970s television soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Mike Hunt
Mike Hunt is a name best known as a long-running prank or joke name in English-speaking popular culture due to its phonetic resemblance to a vulgar phrase.
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E.
David Burrows
David Burrows is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including The Lego Movie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | See No Evil, Hear No Evil ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
disability and friendship
ⓘ
mistaken identity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| directed | See No Evil, Hear No Evil ⓘ |
| director | Arthur Hiller ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | See No Evil, Hear No Evil ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Dave Lyons
ⓘ
Wally Karue ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Dave Lyons ⓘ |
| hasDisability | deafness ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
good-natured
ⓘ
resourceful ⓘ |
| involvedIn | murder investigation ⓘ |
| isDeaf | true ⓘ |
| isWronglyAccusedOf | murder ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | newsstand owner ⓘ |
| plays | Dave Lyons ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gene Wilder ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| worksWith | Wally Karue ⓘ |
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: Dave Lyons Description of subject: Dave Lyons is a deaf man who becomes entangled in a murder investigation alongside his blind friend in the comedy film "See No Evil, Hear No Evil."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.