Seth Davis
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Seth Davis is the ambitious young stockbroker protagonist of the film "Boiler Room," whose involvement in a corrupt brokerage firm forces him to confront the moral consequences of his pursuit of wealth and success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seth Davis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7909796 — 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: Seth Davis Context triple: [Boiler Room, mainCharacter, Seth Davis]
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A.
Seth Numrich
Seth Numrich is an American actor known for his work on stage and screen, including a prominent role in the historical drama series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
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B.
Seth Reed
Seth Reed is known as the father of American actress and screenwriter Nikki Reed.
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C.
Seth Padelford
Seth Padelford was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island during the Reconstruction era.
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D.
Seth Frank
Seth Frank is a fictional Washington, D.C. police detective featured in David Baldacci’s political thriller novel "Absolute Power."
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E.
Seth Hufstedler
Seth Hufstedler was an American lawyer and prominent appellate advocate known for his leadership in the American Bar Association and significant contributions to legal ethics and judicial administration.
- 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: Seth Davis Target entity description: Seth Davis is the ambitious young stockbroker protagonist of the film "Boiler Room," whose involvement in a corrupt brokerage firm forces him to confront the moral consequences of his pursuit of wealth and success.
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A.
Seth Numrich
Seth Numrich is an American actor known for his work on stage and screen, including a prominent role in the historical drama series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
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B.
Seth Reed
Seth Reed is known as the father of American actress and screenwriter Nikki Reed.
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C.
Seth Padelford
Seth Padelford was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island during the Reconstruction era.
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D.
Seth Frank
Seth Frank is a fictional Washington, D.C. police detective featured in David Baldacci’s political thriller novel "Absolute Power."
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E.
Seth Hufstedler
Seth Hufstedler was an American lawyer and prominent appellate advocate known for his leadership in the American Bar Association and significant contributions to legal ethics and judicial administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Boiler Room ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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intelligent ⓘ morally conflicted ⓘ |
| conflictType | moral conflict ⓘ |
| employerType | corrupt brokerage firm ⓘ |
| familyRelationship | son of a federal judge ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | crime drama ⓘ |
| involvedIn | securities fraud scheme ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| moralTheme |
consequences of greed
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corruption in finance ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | moral awakening ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
brokerage firm employee
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stockbroker ⓘ |
| operates | illegal home casino ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Giovanni Ribisi ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation |
pursuit of success
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pursuit of wealth ⓘ |
| realizes | J.T. Marlin is a pump-and-dump scam ⓘ |
| seeks | approval of his father ⓘ |
| setting | Long Island, New York ⓘ |
| worksFor | J.T. Marlin ⓘ |
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: Seth Davis Description of subject: Seth Davis is the ambitious young stockbroker protagonist of the film "Boiler Room," whose involvement in a corrupt brokerage firm forces him to confront the moral consequences of his pursuit of wealth and success.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.