Bat MacPherson
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Bat MacPherson is a central character in the 1939 adventure film "Only Angels Have Wings," portrayed as a skilled but morally conflicted pilot whose past actions create tension among his fellow fliers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bat MacPherson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356426 — 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: Bat MacPherson Context triple: [Only Angels Have Wings, mainCharacter, Bat MacPherson]
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A.
Albert Gordon MacRae
Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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B.
Jack MacDonald
Jack MacDonald was a Canadian communist activist and political organizer best known as a founding figure and early leader of the Communist Party of Canada.
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C.
George Downie
George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
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D.
Don Jamieson
Don Jamieson was a Canadian Liberal politician and cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles, including in foreign affairs, during the latter half of the 20th century.
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E.
Robin Gibson
Robin Gibson was a prominent Australian architect best known for his influential modernist designs in Brisbane and across Queensland.
- 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: Bat MacPherson Target entity description: Bat MacPherson is a central character in the 1939 adventure film "Only Angels Have Wings," portrayed as a skilled but morally conflicted pilot whose past actions create tension among his fellow fliers.
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A.
Albert Gordon MacRae
Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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B.
Jack MacDonald
Jack MacDonald was a Canadian communist activist and political organizer best known as a founding figure and early leader of the Communist Party of Canada.
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C.
George Downie
George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
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D.
Don Jamieson
Don Jamieson was a Canadian Liberal politician and cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles, including in foreign affairs, during the latter half of the 20th century.
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E.
Robin Gibson
Robin Gibson was a prominent Australian architect best known for his influential modernist designs in Brisbane and across Queensland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Only Angels Have Wings ⓘ |
| creates | tension among fellow fliers ⓘ |
| hasPastActions | cause conflict with other pilots ⓘ |
| hasRole | central character ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
morally conflicted
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skilled ⓘ |
| occupation | pilot ⓘ |
| portrayedInYear | 1939 ⓘ |
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: Bat MacPherson Description of subject: Bat MacPherson is a central character in the 1939 adventure film "Only Angels Have Wings," portrayed as a skilled but morally conflicted pilot whose past actions create tension among his fellow fliers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.