Frank Tupelo
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Frank Tupelo is the seemingly ordinary American math teacher who becomes entangled in an international web of intrigue and mistaken identity in the film "The Tourist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Tupelo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5343192 — 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: Frank Tupelo Context triple: [The Tourist, mainCharacter, Frank Tupelo]
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A.
John Esten Cooke
John Esten Cooke was a 19th-century American novelist and Confederate soldier best known for his historical romances set in Virginia and his writings about the American Civil War.
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B.
Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and entrepreneur best known as the founder and early developer of Albany, Georgia.
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C.
Clarence Upson Young
Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
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D.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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E.
Walker D. Hines
Walker D. Hines was an American lawyer and government official who served as Director General of Railroads during the period of federal control of U.S. railroads in World War I.
- 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: Frank Tupelo Target entity description: Frank Tupelo is the seemingly ordinary American math teacher who becomes entangled in an international web of intrigue and mistaken identity in the film "The Tourist."
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A.
John Esten Cooke
John Esten Cooke was a 19th-century American novelist and Confederate soldier best known for his historical romances set in Virginia and his writings about the American Civil War.
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B.
Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and entrepreneur best known as the founder and early developer of Albany, Georgia.
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C.
Clarence Upson Young
Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
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D.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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E.
Walker D. Hines
Walker D. Hines was an American lawyer and government official who served as Director General of Railroads during the period of federal control of U.S. railroads in World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tourist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | mistaken identity ⓘ |
| createdBy | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ⓘ |
| createdFor |
The Tourist (2010 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tourist
|
| describedAs | seemingly ordinary ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
crime
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic thriller ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Alexander Pearce ⓘ |
| involvedIn | international intrigue ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | math teacher ⓘ |
| partOf | The Tourist (film) narrative ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Johnny Depp ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Elise Clifton-Ward ⓘ |
| setIn |
Europe
ⓘ
Venice ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2010 ⓘ |
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: Frank Tupelo Description of subject: Frank Tupelo is the seemingly ordinary American math teacher who becomes entangled in an international web of intrigue and mistaken identity in the film "The Tourist."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.