Matthew
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Matthew is the central protagonist of the film "Wicker Park," whose obsessive search for a lost love drives the movie’s intricate romantic mystery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804035 — 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: Matthew Context triple: [Wicker Park, mainCharacter, Matthew]
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A.
Matthew
Matthew is the given name of Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Scottish football manager best known for his long and successful tenure at Manchester United.
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B.
Matthew
Matthew is traditionally recognized as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and is commonly associated with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
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C.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
James
James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
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E.
Patrick
Patrick is a component or constituent part of something associated with or named Kirkpatrick.
- 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: Matthew Target entity description: Matthew is the central protagonist of the film "Wicker Park," whose obsessive search for a lost love drives the movie’s intricate romantic mystery.
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A.
Matthew
Matthew is the given name of Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Scottish football manager best known for his long and successful tenure at Manchester United.
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B.
Matthew
Matthew is traditionally recognized as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and is commonly associated with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
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C.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
James
James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
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E.
Patrick
Patrick is the given first name of Pat Riley, the famed American basketball coach and executive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Wicker Park ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| basedOnCharacterIn |
LAppartement
ⓘ
linked to:
L'Appartement
|
| centralThemeConnection |
fate and missed opportunities
ⓘ
obsession and identity ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| drivesPlotOf | Wicker Park ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 2004 ⓘ |
| formerGirlfriend | Rebecca ⓘ |
| friend | Luke ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext |
mystery romance
ⓘ
romantic thriller ⓘ |
| hasFlashbackScenes | true ⓘ |
| isDeceivedBy | Alex ⓘ |
| isObsessedWith | Lisa ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Lisa ⓘ |
| meetsCharacter | Alex ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | advertising executive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Josh Hartnett ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | reuniting with lost love ⓘ |
| primaryTrait |
determined
ⓘ
emotionally conflicted ⓘ romantically obsessive ⓘ |
| pursuesRomanticRelationshipWith | Lisa ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago ⓘ |
| searchesFor | Lisa ⓘ |
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: Matthew Description of subject: Matthew is the central protagonist of the film "Wicker Park," whose obsessive search for a lost love drives the movie’s intricate romantic mystery.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Wicker Park (film)