Lazarus
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Lazarus is the troubled, blues-playing ex-bluesman portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 Southern drama film "Black Snake Moan."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lazarus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785168 — 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: Lazarus Context triple: [Black Snake Moan, mainCharacter, Lazarus]
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A.
Lazar
Lazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Slavic and other Eastern European cultures.
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B.
Lazarus Salii
Lazarus Salii was a Palauan politician who served as President of Palau during the late 1980s, playing a key role in the country’s early years of self-governance.
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C.
Lazare
Lazare is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and statesman Lazare Carnot.
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D.
Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus of Bethany is a New Testament figure whom Jesus famously raised from the dead, symbolizing resurrection and eternal life in Christian tradition.
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E.
Salvator
Salvator is the Latin term traditionally used in Christian theology and liturgy to refer to Jesus Christ as the Savior.
- 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: Lazarus Target entity description: Lazarus is the troubled, blues-playing ex-bluesman portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 Southern drama film "Black Snake Moan."
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A.
Lazar
Lazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Slavic and other Eastern European cultures.
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B.
Lazarus Salii
Lazarus Salii was a Palauan politician who served as President of Palau during the late 1980s, playing a key role in the country’s early years of self-governance.
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C.
Lazare
Lazare is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and statesman Lazare Carnot.
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D.
Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus of Bethany is a New Testament figure whom Jesus famously raised from the dead, symbolizing resurrection and eternal life in Christian tradition.
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E.
Salvator
Salvator is the Latin term traditionally used in Christian theology and liturgy to refer to Jesus Christ as the Savior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Black Snake Moan ⓘ |
| appearsInCountryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| associatedWithInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| associatedWithMusicStyle | Delta blues ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
faith
ⓘ
healing ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdForWork | Black Snake Moan ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | Southern drama film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | bluesman ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
intense
ⓘ
religious ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
guitar playing
ⓘ
singing blues ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | blues musician ⓘ |
| playsGenre | blues ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Samuel L. Jackson ⓘ |
| portrayedByCharacterAgeRange | middle-aged ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| workDirector | Craig Brewer ⓘ |
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: Lazarus Description of subject: Lazarus is the troubled, blues-playing ex-bluesman portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 Southern drama film "Black Snake Moan."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.