Max Cady
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Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Max Cady canonical | 24 |
| Max Cady (in self-defense) | 1 |
| helped imprison Max Cady | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326036 — 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: Max Cady Context triple: [Cape Fear (1962 film), character, Max Cady]
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A.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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B.
Winston Silver
Winston Silver is a lighter, lower-tar and nicotine variant of the Winston brand of cigarettes.
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C.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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D.
Richard Loeb
Richard Loeb was an American university student and one of the infamous "Leopold and Loeb" duo who committed a highly publicized 1924 murder in Chicago.
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E.
Ross Malinger
Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
- 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: Max Cady Target entity description: Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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A.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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B.
Winston Silver
Winston Silver is a lighter, lower-tar and nicotine variant of the Winston brand of cigarettes.
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C.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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D.
Richard Loeb
Richard Loeb was an American university student and one of the infamous "Leopold and Loeb" duo who committed a highly publicized 1924 murder in Chicago.
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E.
Ross Malinger
Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedFor |
Cape Fear (1962 film)
ⓘ
Cape Fear (1991 film) ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| antagonistOf | Sam Bowden ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cape Fear ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm |
Cape Fear (1962 film)
ⓘ
Cape Fear (1991 film) ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterFrom | The Executioners ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
obsessive
ⓘ
sadistic ⓘ vengeful ⓘ |
| createdBy | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature | extensive religious tattoos in Cape Fear (1991 film) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Executioners (1957 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Executioners
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | thriller character ⓘ |
| imprisonedFor | rape ⓘ |
| language | English-speaking character ⓘ |
| motivation | revenge against his former defense attorney ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
manipulating the legal system to avoid arrest
ⓘ
stalking his former lawyer's family ⓘ |
| notableScene | houseboat confrontation in Cape Fear (1991 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | ex-convict ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Robert De Niro
ⓘ
Robert Mitchum ⓘ |
| roleInStory | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| seeks | retribution for perceived legal betrayal ⓘ |
| setting |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| studiesInPrison | law ⓘ |
| targetOfRevenge | Sam Bowden ⓘ |
| terrorizes | Sam Bowden's family ⓘ |
| threatens |
Sam Bowden's daughter
ⓘ
Sam Bowden's wife ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
physical violence
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psychological terror ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | brute force ⓘ |
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: Max Cady Description of subject: Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Max Cady
linked to: Max Cady
subject linked to:
Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
subject linked to:
Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")