Dewey Finn
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Dewey Finn is an enthusiastic, slacker musician who poses as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students in the comedy film "School of Rock."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dewey Finn canonical | 13 |
| Ned Schneebly (impersonated by Dewey Finn) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051365 — 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: Dewey Finn Context triple: [School of Rock (film), mainCharacter, Dewey Finn]
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A.
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist and acoustical engineer renowned as a pioneer of stereophonic sound and psychoacoustics.
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B.
Professor Bhaer
Professor Bhaer is a kind, intellectually inclined German immigrant and love interest of Jo March in the 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women."
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C.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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D.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- 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: Dewey Finn Target entity description: Dewey Finn is an enthusiastic, slacker musician who poses as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students in the comedy film "School of Rock."
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A.
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist and acoustical engineer renowned as a pioneer of stereophonic sound and psychoacoustics.
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B.
Professor Bhaer
Professor Bhaer is a kind, intellectually inclined German immigrant and love interest of Jo March in the 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women."
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C.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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D.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
School of Rock
ⓘ
linked to:
School of Rock (film)
|
| appearsInGenre | comedy film ⓘ |
| assumesIdentityAs | substitute teacher ⓘ |
| bandName |
School of Rock
ⓘ
linked to:
School of Rock (film)
|
| characterTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
enthusiastic ⓘ immature ⓘ passionate about music ⓘ rebellious ⓘ slacker ⓘ |
| conflictWith | school administration ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mike White ⓘ |
| encourages | students’ musical talent ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| filmDirectorOfAppearance | Richard Linklater ⓘ |
| filmLanguage | English ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
School of Rock (2003 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
School of Rock (film)
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| formsBandWith | his students ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | rock music ⓘ |
| goal | win Battle of the Bands ⓘ |
| inspires | students ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | love of rock music ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableScene |
Battle of the Bands performance
ⓘ
classroom rock rehearsal ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
substitute teacher ⓘ |
| plotRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Black ⓘ |
| primaryInstrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfAppearance | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| relationshipToNedSchneebly | roommate ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Rosalie Mullins ⓘ |
| setting |
New York state
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| teachesAt |
Horace Green Preparatory School
ⓘ
linked to:
Whooton School
|
| teachesGradeLevel | elementary school students ⓘ |
| teachesSubject | rock band performance ⓘ |
| teachingStyle | unconventional ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Mr. Schneebly ⓘ |
| vocalRole | lead singer ⓘ |
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: Dewey Finn Description of subject: Dewey Finn is an enthusiastic, slacker musician who poses as a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students in the comedy film "School of Rock."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dewey Finn