Dr. Edgar Caldicott
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Dr. Edgar Caldicott is the sinister school psychiatrist and covert mastermind behind a mind-control experiment on students in the thriller film "Disturbing Behavior."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Edgar Caldicott canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8766679 — 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: Dr. Edgar Caldicott Context triple: [Disturbing Behavior, mainCharacter, Dr. Edgar Caldicott]
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A.
William Rooke Creswell
William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
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B.
Dr. Walter Curnow
Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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C.
Ernest Wilson
Ernest Wilson is a songwriter best known for penning the track "I Wonder."
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D.
Edward Ingress Bell
Edward Ingress Bell was a British architect known for his partnership with Sir Aston Webb on prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century public and institutional buildings in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Percival P. Baxter
Percival P. Baxter was a former governor of Maine and conservationist best known for his pivotal role in preserving wilderness areas, including the land that became Baxter State Park.
- 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: Dr. Edgar Caldicott Target entity description: Dr. Edgar Caldicott is the sinister school psychiatrist and covert mastermind behind a mind-control experiment on students in the thriller film "Disturbing Behavior."
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A.
William Rooke Creswell
William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
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B.
Dr. Walter Curnow
Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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C.
Ernest Wilson
Ernest Wilson is a songwriter best known for penning the track "I Wonder."
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D.
Edward Ingress Bell
Edward Ingress Bell was a British architect known for his partnership with Sir Aston Webb on prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century public and institutional buildings in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Percival P. Baxter
Percival P. Baxter was a former governor of Maine and conservationist best known for his pivotal role in preserving wilderness areas, including the land that became Baxter State Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cradle Bay community leaders ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Disturbing Behavior
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Disturbing Behavior (1998 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Disturbing Behavior franchise
|
| controls | Blue Ribbons ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginContext |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Cradle Bay High School ⓘ |
| familyName | Caldicott ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | thriller ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 1998 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | science fiction horror thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Edgar ⓘ |
| goal | create perfectly behaved teenagers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| method |
behavior modification
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mind control ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | represents authoritarian social control ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conducting mind-control experiments on students
ⓘ
creating the Blue Ribbons students ⓘ |
| occupation |
psychiatrist
ⓘ
school psychiatrist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bruce Greenwood ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
antagonist
ⓘ
mastermind ⓘ |
| title | Doctor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cradle Bay High School ⓘ |
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: Dr. Edgar Caldicott Description of subject: Dr. Edgar Caldicott is the sinister school psychiatrist and covert mastermind behind a mind-control experiment on students in the thriller film "Disturbing Behavior."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.