Andrew Laeddis
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Andrew Laeddis is the true identity of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, revealed as a delusional patient in the psychological thriller "Shutter Island."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Laeddis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2659150 — 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: Andrew Laeddis Context triple: [Teddy Daniels, alsoKnownAs, Andrew Laeddis]
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A.
Stone Crandall
Stone Crandall is a handsome, overconfident alpha-male character in the 2015 comedy film "Vacation," known for his outrageous antics and exaggerated masculinity.
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B.
Paul Millspaugh
Paul Millspaugh is a film editor known for his work on the romantic comedy "Two Can Play That Game."
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C.
Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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D.
Jack Leary
Jack Leary is the son of famed psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary, known primarily for his connection to his father's countercultural legacy.
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E.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Andrew Laeddis Target entity description: Andrew Laeddis is the true identity of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, revealed as a delusional patient in the psychological thriller "Shutter Island."
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A.
Stone Crandall
Stone Crandall is a handsome, overconfident alpha-male character in the 2015 comedy film "Vacation," known for his outrageous antics and exaggerated masculinity.
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B.
Paul Millspaugh
Paul Millspaugh is a film editor known for his work on the romantic comedy "Two Can Play That Game."
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C.
Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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D.
Jack Leary
Jack Leary is the son of famed psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary, known primarily for his connection to his father's countercultural legacy.
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E.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Teddy Daniels ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shutter Island ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
guilt
ⓘ
identity ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel "Shutter Island" ⓘ |
| confinedAt | Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Dennis Lehane ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasDelusionOfBeing | investigating U.S. Marshal ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mentalState | delusional ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Marshal ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
Ashecliffe Hospital
ⓘ
Shutter Island ⓘ
linked to:
Shutter Island (novel)
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| trueIdentityOf | Teddy Daniels ⓘ |
| workTitle |
Shutter Island (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Shutter Island
|
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: Andrew Laeddis Description of subject: Andrew Laeddis is the true identity of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, revealed as a delusional patient in the psychological thriller "Shutter Island."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.