Mike Talman
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Mike Talman is a con man who becomes entangled in a tense scheme involving a blind woman and hidden heroin in the thriller "Wait Until Dark."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Talman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7049290 — 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: Mike Talman Context triple: [Wait Until Dark, character, Mike Talman]
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A.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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B.
Jim Veltman
Jim Veltman is a former Canadian professional lacrosse player renowned as one of the greatest leaders and transition players in National Lacrosse League history, particularly with the Toronto Rock.
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C.
Steve Judd
Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- 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: Mike Talman Target entity description: Mike Talman is a con man who becomes entangled in a tense scheme involving a blind woman and hidden heroin in the thriller "Wait Until Dark."
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A.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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B.
Jim Veltman
Jim Veltman is a former Canadian professional lacrosse player renowned as one of the greatest leaders and transition players in National Lacrosse League history, particularly with the Toronto Rock.
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C.
Steve Judd
Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
con man
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Wait Until Dark ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
a blind woman
ⓘ
hidden heroin ⓘ |
| characterInGenre | thriller ⓘ |
| createdFor |
the play and film "Wait Until Dark"
ⓘ
linked to:
Wait Until Dark (stage)
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| hasOccupation | criminal ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
deceptive
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ opportunistic ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
scheme involving a blind woman
ⓘ
scheme involving hidden heroin ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonist ⓘ |
| roleIn | Wait Until Dark ⓘ |
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: Mike Talman Description of subject: Mike Talman is a con man who becomes entangled in a tense scheme involving a blind woman and hidden heroin in the thriller "Wait Until Dark."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.