Clovis Poplin
E453507
Clovis Poplin is the central fugitive husband in the 1974 road-crime film "The Sugarland Express," whose escape with his wife to reclaim their child drives the movie’s plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clovis Poplin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4577439 — 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: Clovis Poplin Context triple: [The Sugarland Express, mainCharacter, Clovis Poplin]
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A.
Clovis
Clovis is a small city in eastern New Mexico known as a regional hub for agriculture, rail transport, and nearby Cannon Air Force Base.
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B.
Clovis
Clovis is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with early Frankish kings and related to names like Louis and Ludwig.
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C.
Clovis
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, known as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada and for its historic Old Town district.
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D.
Pepin of Landen
Pepin of Landen was a 7th-century Frankish nobleman and mayor of the palace whose lineage laid the groundwork for the rise of the Carolingian dynasty.
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E.
Giselbert
Giselbert is a Germanic given name of medieval origin that later evolved into the name Gilbert.
- 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: Clovis Poplin Target entity description: Clovis Poplin is the central fugitive husband in the 1974 road-crime film "The Sugarland Express," whose escape with his wife to reclaim their child drives the movie’s plot.
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A.
Clovis
Clovis is a small city in eastern New Mexico known as a regional hub for agriculture, rail transport, and nearby Cannon Air Force Base.
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B.
Clovis
Clovis is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with early Frankish kings and related to names like Louis and Ludwig.
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C.
Clovis
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, known as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada and for its historic Old Town district.
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D.
Pepin of Landen
Pepin of Landen was a 7th-century Frankish nobleman and mayor of the palace whose lineage laid the groundwork for the rise of the Carolingian dynasty.
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E.
Giselbert
Giselbert is a Germanic given name of medieval origin that later evolved into the name Gilbert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sugarland Express ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
crime film
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road movie ⓘ |
| causeOfEvent | escape from custody ⓘ |
| conflictWith | law enforcement authorities ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| drives | main narrative of The Sugarland Express ⓘ |
| genreContext | road-crime ⓘ |
| goal | reclaim his child ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| motivation | family reunification ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | fugitive ⓘ |
| partOf | The Sugarland Express plot ⓘ |
| relationship | husband of Lou Jean Poplin ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | central fugitive husband ⓘ |
| spouse | Lou Jean Poplin ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1974 ⓘ |
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: Clovis Poplin Description of subject: Clovis Poplin is the central fugitive husband in the 1974 road-crime film "The Sugarland Express," whose escape with his wife to reclaim their child drives the movie’s plot.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.