Nathan Detroit
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Nathan Detroit is a lovable, perpetually scheming New York gambler best known as the organizer of an illegal floating crap game in the musical "Guys and Dolls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan Detroit canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398196 — 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: Nathan Detroit Context triple: [Guys and Dolls, originalBroadwayLeadCharacter, Nathan Detroit]
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A.
Nathan
Nathan is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible known for advising King David and courageously confronting him over his sin with Bathsheba.
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B.
Nathan
Nathan is the central character of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play "Nathan the Wise," portrayed as a wise and compassionate Jewish merchant who advocates religious tolerance and humanism.
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C.
Nathan
Nathan is a common given name used in various cultures, often derived from Hebrew meaning "he gave" or "gift."
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D.
Nathan
Nathan is the given first name of the American writer and poet Jean Toomer, known for his modernist work "Cane."
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E.
Nate Ford
Nate Ford is the brilliant but morally conflicted former insurance investigator who leads the crew of con artists in the television series "Leverage."
- 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: Nathan Detroit Target entity description: Nathan Detroit is a lovable, perpetually scheming New York gambler best known as the organizer of an illegal floating crap game in the musical "Guys and Dolls."
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A.
Nathan
Nathan is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible known for advising King David and courageously confronting him over his sin with Bathsheba.
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B.
Nathan
Nathan is the central character of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s play "Nathan the Wise," portrayed as a wise and compassionate Jewish merchant who advocates religious tolerance and humanism.
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C.
Nathan
Nathan is a common given name used in various cultures, often derived from Hebrew meaning "he gave" or "gift."
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D.
Nathan
Nathan is the given first name of the American writer and poet Jean Toomer, known for his modernist work "Cane."
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E.
Nate Ford
Nate Ford is the brilliant but morally conflicted former insurance investigator who leads the crew of con artists in the television series "Leverage."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
musical theatre character ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| activity | running a floating crap game ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Damon Runyon short stories ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Guys and Dolls
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Guys and Dolls (1950 Broadway musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls (1955 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Guys and Dolls
|
| associatedWith |
Benny Southstreet
ⓘ
Big Jule ⓘ Miss Adelaide ⓘ Nicely-Nicely Johnson ⓘ Sky Masterson ⓘ |
| basedOn | characters from Damon Runyon stories ⓘ |
| conflict |
avoiding arrest by the police
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commitment to marry Miss Adelaide ⓘ finding a location for the crap game ⓘ |
| creator |
Abe Burrows
ⓘ
Jo Swerling ⓘ |
| fiancée | Miss Adelaide ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| genre |
musical comedy
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | lovable rogue ⓘ |
| musicalNumber |
Sue Me
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The Oldest Established ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor | organizing an illegal floating crap game ⓘ |
| occupation |
crap game organizer
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gambler ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
lovable
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scheming ⓘ streetwise ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Bob Hoskins
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Frank Sinatra ⓘ Nathan Lane ⓘ Sam Levene ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | longtime engagement ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Miss Adelaide ⓘ |
| setting |
Broadway theatre district
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway Theatre District
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| theme |
gambling
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romantic commitment ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Nathan Detroit Description of subject: Nathan Detroit is a lovable, perpetually scheming New York gambler best known as the organizer of an illegal floating crap game in the musical "Guys and Dolls."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.