Link Larkin
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Link Larkin is a charming teenage heartthrob and singer in the musical "Hairspray," known as the lead male love interest and a popular performer on the Corny Collins Show.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Link Larkin canonical | 6 |
| Link Larkin in Hairspray | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859808 — 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: Link Larkin Context triple: [Hairspray, hasCharacter, Link Larkin]
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A.
Chris Larkin
Chris Larkin is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and for being the son of acclaimed actress Maggie Smith.
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B.
John Linson
John Linson is an American film and television producer best known for creating the series Yellowstone and producing projects like Sons of Anarchy.
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C.
Lloyd
Lloyd is a masculine given name of Welsh origin meaning "grey" or "grey-haired."
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D.
Lloyd
Lloyd is the middle name of William Lloyd Garrison, the prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and social reformer.
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E.
Charlie Lucas
Charlie Lucas is an actor known for his role in the film "Tea with Mussolini."
- 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: Link Larkin Target entity description: Link Larkin is a charming teenage heartthrob and singer in the musical "Hairspray," known as the lead male love interest and a popular performer on the Corny Collins Show.
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A.
Chris Larkin
Chris Larkin is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and for being the son of acclaimed actress Maggie Smith.
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B.
John Linson
John Linson is an American film and television producer best known for creating the series Yellowstone and producing projects like Sons of Anarchy.
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C.
Lloyd
Lloyd is a masculine given name of Welsh origin meaning "grey" or "grey-haired."
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D.
Lloyd
Lloyd is the middle name of William Lloyd Garrison, the prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and social reformer.
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E.
Charlie Lucas
Charlie Lucas is an actor known for his role in the film "Tea with Mussolini."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
stage musical character ⓘ |
| adaptedFor |
Hairspray (2002 Broadway musical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
Hairspray (2007 film adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
|
| affiliation |
Corny Collins Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Corny Collins
|
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hairspray
ⓘ
Hairspray (2002 musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
Hairspray (2007 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
|
| archetype |
high school heartthrob
ⓘ
teen idol ⓘ |
| associatedWithShow | The Corny Collins Show ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charming
ⓘ
popular ⓘ |
| conflict | torn between popularity and doing the right thing ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Waters (original film concept) ⓘ |
| createdFor |
Hairspray (1988 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hairStyle | 1960s teen idol pompadour ⓘ |
| initialRelationship | boyfriend of Amber Von Tussle ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Tracy Turnblad ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableSong |
It Takes Two
ⓘ
Without Love ⓘ You Can’t Stop the Beat ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hairspray franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
|
| portrayedBy |
Andrew Rannells
ⓘ
Derek Hough ⓘ Garrett Clayton ⓘ James Marsden ⓘ Matthew Morrison ⓘ Michael St. Gerard ⓘ Nick Jonas ⓘ Zac Efron ⓘ various stage actors ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | boyfriend of Tracy Turnblad (by end of story) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | lead male love interest ⓘ |
| setting |
Baltimore, Maryland (fictionalized 1960s)
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
| supports | racial integration of The Corny Collins Show ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
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: Link Larkin Description of subject: Link Larkin is a charming teenage heartthrob and singer in the musical "Hairspray," known as the lead male love interest and a popular performer on the Corny Collins Show.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Link Larkin