Dave Harken
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Dave Harken is the tyrannical, manipulative boss and main antagonist portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Harken canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3536331 — 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: Dave Harken Context triple: [Kevin Spacey as Dave Harken, characterName, Dave Harken]
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A.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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B.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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C.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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D.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
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E.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
- 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: Dave Harken Target entity description: Dave Harken is the tyrannical, manipulative boss and main antagonist portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses."
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A.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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B.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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C.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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D.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
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E.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Horrible Bosses
ⓘ
Horrible Bosses (2011 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Horrible Bosses
|
| characterTrait |
abusive
ⓘ
controlling ⓘ manipulative ⓘ sadistic ⓘ tyrannical ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | screenwriters of Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
| createdFor | Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
| employerInFiction | Comnidyne ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Horrible Bosses (2011)
ⓘ
linked to:
Horrible Bosses
|
| genreOfWork | dark comedy film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Dave Harken ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the conflict for Nick Hendricks ⓘ |
| occupation |
boss
ⓘ
corporate executive ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Horrible Bosses franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Horrible Bosses
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| portrayedBy | Kevin Spacey ⓘ |
| relationshipToCharacter |
antagonist to Dale Arbus
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antagonist to Kurt Buckman ⓘ antagonist to Nick Hendricks ⓘ boss of Nick Hendricks ⓘ |
| roleInWork | main antagonist in Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
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: Dave Harken Description of subject: Dave Harken is the tyrannical, manipulative boss and main antagonist portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.