Michael Sullivan
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Michael Sullivan is a stoic Depression-era mob enforcer and conflicted father whose quest for vengeance and protection of his son drives the crime drama of "Road to Perdition."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Sullivan canonical | 9 |
| Michael Sullivan Jr. | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2900886 — 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: Michael Sullivan Context triple: [Road to Perdition, mainCharacter, Michael Sullivan]
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A.
Michael L. Sale
Michael L. Sale is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "Bridesmaids."
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B.
Gregory Nussbaum
Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
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C.
Ronald G. Larson
Ronald G. Larson is an American chemical engineer and rheologist renowned for his influential research on the flow and deformation of complex fluids and polymers.
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D.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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E.
Michael G. Smith
Michael G. Smith is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.
- 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: Michael Sullivan Target entity description: Michael Sullivan is a stoic Depression-era mob enforcer and conflicted father whose quest for vengeance and protection of his son drives the crime drama of "Road to Perdition."
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A.
Michael L. Sale
Michael L. Sale is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "Bridesmaids."
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B.
Gregory Nussbaum
Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
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C.
Ronald G. Larson
Ronald G. Larson is an American chemical engineer and rheologist renowned for his influential research on the flow and deformation of complex fluids and polymers.
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D.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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E.
Michael G. Smith
Michael G. Smith is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Michael Sullivan Description of subject: Michael Sullivan is a stoic Depression-era mob enforcer and conflicted father whose quest for vengeance and protection of his son drives the crime drama of "Road to Perdition."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael Sullivan
linked to: Michael Sullivan
linked to: Michael Sullivan
subject linked to:
Peter Sullivan