Roat
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Roat is the menacing criminal mastermind and primary antagonist in the thriller film "Wait Until Dark."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roat canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7049289 — 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: Roat Context triple: [Wait Until Dark, character, Roat]
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A.
Rollot
Rollot is a small commune in northern France, notable as the birthplace of the orientalist and translator Antoine Galland.
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B.
Royat
Royat is a spa town in central France known for its thermal springs and Belle Époque architecture.
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C.
Roatta
Roatta is an Italian surname most notably borne by Mario Roatta, a general in the Royal Italian Army during World War II.
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D.
Rallo
Rallo is a young, mischievous character from the animated television series "The Cleveland Show," known for his precocious attitude and comedic antics.
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E.
Rotse
Rotse is an alternative name for the Lozi people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily inhabiting western Zambia and surrounding regions.
- 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: Roat Target entity description: Roat is the menacing criminal mastermind and primary antagonist in the thriller film "Wait Until Dark."
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A.
Rollot
Rollot is a small commune in northern France, notable as the birthplace of the orientalist and translator Antoine Galland.
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B.
Royat
Royat is a spa town in central France known for its thermal springs and Belle Époque architecture.
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C.
Roatta
Roatta is an Italian surname most notably borne by Mario Roatta, a general in the Royal Italian Army during World War II.
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D.
Rallo
Rallo is a young, mischievous character from the animated television series "The Cleveland Show," known for his precocious attitude and comedic antics.
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E.
Rotse
Rotse is an alternative name for the Lozi people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily inhabiting western Zambia and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Wait Until Dark ⓘ |
| associatedWith | heroin-filled doll ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthorContext | Frederick Knott ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Wait Until Dark (play)
ⓘ
linked to:
Wait Until Dark (stage)
|
| characterType | menacing criminal ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Susy Hendrix ⓘ |
| createdForMedium | film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 1967 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | thriller film ⓘ |
| goal | recover heroin-filled doll ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| manipulates |
Carlino
ⓘ
Mike Talman ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | motion picture ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
calculating
ⓘ
cold-blooded ⓘ sadistic ⓘ |
| occupation | criminal mastermind ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Alan Arkin ⓘ |
| roleIn | Wait Until Dark ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | Greenwich Village apartment ⓘ |
| threatens | Susy Hendrix ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
deception
ⓘ
intimidation ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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: Roat Description of subject: Roat is the menacing criminal mastermind and primary antagonist in the thriller film "Wait Until Dark."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.