Arthur Adamson
E385667
Arthur Adamson is a central criminal mastermind character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 thriller film "Family Plot."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Adamson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757506 — 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: Arthur Adamson Context triple: [Family Plot, featuresCharacter, Arthur Adamson]
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A.
William Eugene Drummond
William Eugene Drummond was an American architect associated with Frank Lloyd Wright who became a key figure in developing and promoting the Prairie School style in the early 20th century.
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B.
George Murray
George Murray was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served in several high-ranking imperial posts in the early 19th century.
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C.
Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
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D.
David Farrar
David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
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E.
Ted Hardie
Ted Hardie is an Internet engineering expert and long-time IETF leader known for his work on real-time communications and web technologies.
- 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: Arthur Adamson Target entity description: Arthur Adamson is a central criminal mastermind character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 thriller film "Family Plot."
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A.
William Eugene Drummond
William Eugene Drummond was an American architect associated with Frank Lloyd Wright who became a key figure in developing and promoting the Prairie School style in the early 20th century.
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B.
George Murray
George Murray was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served in several high-ranking imperial posts in the early 19th century.
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C.
Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
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D.
David Farrar
David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
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E.
Ted Hardie
Ted Hardie is an Internet engineering expert and long-time IETF leader known for his work on real-time communications and web technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Family Plot ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | thriller film ⓘ |
| hasNameInWork | Arthur Adamson ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | mastermind behind criminal schemes ⓘ |
| occupation | criminal mastermind ⓘ |
| partOf |
Family Plot (1976 film)
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linked to:
Family Plot
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| roleInWork | central antagonist in the film Family Plot ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1976 ⓘ |
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: Arthur Adamson Description of subject: Arthur Adamson is a central criminal mastermind character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 thriller film "Family Plot."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.