Matt Sullivan
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Matt Sullivan is the celibate-pledging protagonist of the romantic comedy film "40 Days and 40 Nights," whose vow of abstinence drives the movie’s central plot and comedic conflicts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Sullivan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351896 — 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: Matt Sullivan Context triple: [40 Days and 40 Nights, character, Matt Sullivan]
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A.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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B.
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser is a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the 1950s and 1960s, including notable roles in classic British cinema.
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C.
Jackson Healy
Jackson Healy is a tough, no-nonsense enforcer who teams up with a hapless private investigator to unravel a conspiracy in the neo-noir action-comedy film "The Nice Guys."
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D.
Liam Sullivan
Liam Sullivan was an American character actor known for his numerous television and film roles from the 1950s through the 1980s, often portraying suave or villainous figures.
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E.
Brandon Maggart
Brandon Maggart is an American actor and singer best known for his character roles in film and television since the 1970s.
- 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: Matt Sullivan Target entity description: Matt Sullivan is the celibate-pledging protagonist of the romantic comedy film "40 Days and 40 Nights," whose vow of abstinence drives the movie’s central plot and comedic conflicts.
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A.
Colin Sullivan
Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
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B.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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C.
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser is a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the 1950s and 1960s, including notable roles in classic British cinema.
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D.
Jackson Healy
Jackson Healy is a tough, no-nonsense enforcer who teams up with a hapless private investigator to unravel a conspiracy in the neo-noir action-comedy film "The Nice Guys."
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E.
Liam Sullivan
Liam Sullivan was an American character actor known for his numerous television and film roles from the 1950s through the 1980s, often portraying suave or villainous figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | 40 Days and 40 Nights ⓘ |
| causes | comedic situations ⓘ |
| centralConflictIn | 40 Days and 40 Nights ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Rob Perez ⓘ |
| createdFor | 40 Days and 40 Nights ⓘ |
| exGirlfriend | Nicole ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | sex comedy ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
40 Days and 40 Nights
|
| genreOfWork | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Erica Sutton ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| makesBetWith | coworkers ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | male lead ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abstinence bet
ⓘ
celibacy challenge ⓘ |
| occupation | web designer ⓘ |
| pledges | celibacy ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Josh Hartnett ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | 40 Days and 40 Nights ⓘ |
| relationshipStatusAtStart | recently single ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
maintaining celibacy
ⓘ
sexual temptation ⓘ |
| vowDuration | 40 days and 40 nights ⓘ |
| vows | abstinence from sex ⓘ |
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: Matt Sullivan Description of subject: Matt Sullivan is the celibate-pledging protagonist of the romantic comedy film "40 Days and 40 Nights," whose vow of abstinence drives the movie’s central plot and comedic conflicts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.