Lobster Johnson
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Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lobster Johnson canonical | 10 |
| Lobster Johnson (comic series) | 2 |
| Lobster Johnson (Dark Horse Comics series) | 1 |
| Lobster Johnson (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3285453 — 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: Lobster Johnson Context triple: [Mike Mignola, knownFor, Lobster Johnson]
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A.
Tito Burns
Tito Burns was a British accordionist-turned-music manager and agent who became a prominent figure in the UK entertainment industry from the 1950s onward.
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and bandleader known for his soulful Hammond B-3 playing and influential work in the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
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D.
Mr. Mudd
Mr. Mudd is a film and television production company known for producing acclaimed independent and character-driven projects.
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E.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger in Chicago during the Prohibition era, best known as a rival of Al Capone and a target of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
- 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: Lobster Johnson Target entity description: Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
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A.
Tito Burns
Tito Burns was a British accordionist-turned-music manager and agent who became a prominent figure in the UK entertainment industry from the 1950s onward.
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and bandleader known for his soulful Hammond B-3 playing and influential work in the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
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D.
Mr. Mudd
Mr. Mudd is a film and television production company known for producing acclaimed independent and character-driven projects.
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E.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger in Chicago during the Prohibition era, best known as a rival of Al Capone and a target of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book character
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fictional character ⓘ pulp hero ⓘ superhero ⓘ vigilante ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
B.P.R.D.
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Hellboy ⓘ Lobster Johnson (comic series) ⓘ
linked to:
Lobster Johnson
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| associatedWith |
B.P.R.D.
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Golden Age pulp heroes (homage) ⓘ Hellboy ⓘ |
| belongsToFranchise |
Hellboy franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellboy
|
| combatStyle |
gun-based combat
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hand-to-hand combat ⓘ |
| creator | Mike Mignola ⓘ |
| enemyType |
Nazis
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linked to:
Nazi Party
gangsters ⓘ mad scientists ⓘ occult threats ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | American ⓘ |
| fictionalOccupation |
masked adventurer
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vigilante crime-fighter ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Hellboy universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellboy Universe
|
| firstAppearanceUniverse |
Hellboy comics
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellboy Universe
|
| genre |
occult fiction
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pulp fiction ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| hasSpinOffSeries |
Lobster Johnson (Dark Horse Comics series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lobster Johnson
|
| inspiredByStyle |
Doc Savage
ⓘ
The Shadow ⓘ |
| medium | comic books ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
noir
ⓘ
pulp adventure ⓘ |
| notableAction | brands defeated enemies with a claw symbol ⓘ |
| notableFeature | fiery claw symbol ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| publisher | Dark Horse Comics ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| symbol | burning lobster claw mark ⓘ |
| theme |
crime-fighting
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occult warfare ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic |
goggles
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mask ⓘ trench coat ⓘ |
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: Lobster Johnson Description of subject: Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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