Casper Gutman
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Casper Gutman is a fictional, corpulent and calculating criminal mastermind in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," obsessed with obtaining the jewel-encrusted statuette.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Casper Gutman canonical | 3 |
| Kasper Gutman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3875333 — 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: Casper Gutman Context triple: [Sam Spade, associatedWith, Casper Gutman]
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A.
Meyer Wolfsheim
Meyer Wolfsheim is a shady, influential gambler and underworld figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, loosely based on real-life mobster Arnold Rothstein.
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B.
Hymie Weiss
Hymie Weiss was a prominent Prohibition-era Chicago mobster and leader of the North Side Gang, known as a fierce rival of Al Capone.
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C.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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D.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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E.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- 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: Casper Gutman Target entity description: Casper Gutman is a fictional, corpulent and calculating criminal mastermind in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," obsessed with obtaining the jewel-encrusted statuette.
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A.
Meyer Wolfsheim
Meyer Wolfsheim is a shady, influential gambler and underworld figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, loosely based on real-life mobster Arnold Rothstein.
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B.
Hymie Weiss
Hymie Weiss was a prominent Prohibition-era Chicago mobster and leader of the North Side Gang, known as a fierce rival of Al Capone.
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C.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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D.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
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E.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal mastermind
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| alignment | criminal ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
detective fiction
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hardboiled crime fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Joel Cairo
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Wilmer Cook ⓘ |
| characteristic |
calculating
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corpulent ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | Sam Spade ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dashiell Hammett ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Maltese Falcon universe
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linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
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| firstAppearance |
The Maltese Falcon (1930 novel)
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linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | acquire the Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| motivation | to obtain the jewel-encrusted statuette known as the Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
polished and formal manner of speaking
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ruthlessness beneath a courteous exterior ⓘ |
| obsessionWith | legendary treasure ⓘ |
| pursuesObject | Maltese Falcon statuette ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| seeks |
power through possession of the Maltese Falcon
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wealth ⓘ |
| workSetting | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: Casper Gutman Description of subject: Casper Gutman is a fictional, corpulent and calculating criminal mastermind in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," obsessed with obtaining the jewel-encrusted statuette.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.