Brad Neary
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Brad Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary’s children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brad Neary canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303575 — 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: Brad Neary Context triple: [Roy Neary, hasChild, Brad Neary]
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A.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
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B.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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C.
Daniel Neeson
Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
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D.
Don Carmody
Don Carmody is a prolific Canadian film producer known for his work on numerous commercially successful and cult-favorite films across genres.
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E.
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
- 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: Brad Neary Target entity description: Brad Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary’s children.
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A.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
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B.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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C.
Daniel Neeson
Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
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D.
Don Carmody
Don Carmody is a prolific Canadian film producer known for his work on numerous commercially successful and cult-favorite films across genres.
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E.
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Neary ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⓘ |
| givenName | Brad ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Barry Neary
ⓘ
Ronnie Neary ⓘ Roy Neary ⓘ Silvia Neary ⓘ
linked to:
Sylvia Neary
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
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: Brad Neary Description of subject: Brad Neary is a fictional character in the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," depicted as one of Roy Neary’s children.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind