T. R. Devlin
E404538
T. R. Devlin is the U.S. government agent portrayed by Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1946 thriller "Notorious."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| T. R. Devlin canonical | 11 |
| T.R. Devlin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3971169 — 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: T. R. Devlin Context triple: [Notorious, leadCharacter, T. R. Devlin]
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A.
David Lovering
David Lovering is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
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B.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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C.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
- 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: T. R. Devlin Target entity description: T. R. Devlin is the U.S. government agent portrayed by Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1946 thriller "Notorious."
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A.
David Lovering
David Lovering is an American drummer best known as the longtime percussionist for the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
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B.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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C.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ government agent ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Notorious ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ romance ⓘ trust ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Notorious ⓘ |
| employer | United States government ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| filmDirector | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| filmLanguage | English ⓘ |
| filmProducer | David O. Selznick ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| filmScreenwriter | Ben Hecht ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| fullName | T. R. Devlin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | thriller film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. government agent ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Cary Grant ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Alicia Huberman ⓘ |
| setting | post-World War II Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
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: T. R. Devlin Description of subject: T. R. Devlin is the U.S. government agent portrayed by Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1946 thriller "Notorious."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.