Kevin Dolenz
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Kevin Dolenz is a central character in the 1985 coming-of-age film "St. Elmo's Fire," portrayed as a cynical, idealistic writer struggling with unrequited love and post-college adulthood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Dolenz canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6814089 — 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: Kevin Dolenz Context triple: [St. Elmo's Fire, hasCharacter, Kevin Dolenz]
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A.
George Dolenz
George Dolenz was a mid-20th-century film and television actor, known for his character roles in Hollywood productions and as the father of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees.
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B.
Exene Cervenka
Exene Cervenka is an American singer, poet, and visual artist best known as the co-lead vocalist of the influential Los Angeles punk band X.
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C.
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips is an American film producer best known for his work on influential 1970s films, including the classic psychological drama "Taxi Driver."
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D.
Mike Love
Mike Love is an American singer and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the Beach Boys.
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E.
Edward Streeter
Edward Streeter was an American novelist and banker best known for writing the humorous novel "Father of the Bride," which inspired the classic 1950 film adaptation.
- 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: Kevin Dolenz Target entity description: Kevin Dolenz is a central character in the 1985 coming-of-age film "St. Elmo's Fire," portrayed as a cynical, idealistic writer struggling with unrequited love and post-college adulthood.
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A.
George Dolenz
George Dolenz was a mid-20th-century film and television actor, known for his character roles in Hollywood productions and as the father of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees.
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B.
Exene Cervenka
Exene Cervenka is an American singer, poet, and visual artist best known as the co-lead vocalist of the influential Los Angeles punk band X.
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C.
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips is an American film producer best known for his work on influential 1970s films, including the classic psychological drama "Taxi Driver."
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D.
Mike Love
Mike Love is an American singer and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the Beach Boys.
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E.
Edward Streeter
Edward Streeter was an American novelist and banker best known for writing the humorous novel "Father of the Bride," which inspired the classic 1950 film adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | St. Elmo's Fire ⓘ |
| associatedWith | St. Elmo's Bar ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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idealistic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| filmReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| genre | coming-of-age film character ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | writer ⓘ |
| partOf | St. Elmo's Fire friend group ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Andrew McCarthy ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
post-college adulthood
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unrequited love ⓘ |
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: Kevin Dolenz Description of subject: Kevin Dolenz is a central character in the 1985 coming-of-age film "St. Elmo's Fire," portrayed as a cynical, idealistic writer struggling with unrequited love and post-college adulthood.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.