Dave Burke
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Dave Burke is a central character in the 1959 film noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," depicted as a former police officer who masterminds a high-stakes bank heist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave Burke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8785444 — 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: Dave Burke Context triple: [Odds Against Tomorrow, characterPlayedByEdBegley, Dave Burke]
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A.
Jim Burke
Jim Burke is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Descendants" and "Green Book."
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B.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
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D.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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E.
David J. Burke
David J. Burke is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV.
- 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: Dave Burke Target entity description: Dave Burke is a central character in the 1959 film noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," depicted as a former police officer who masterminds a high-stakes bank heist.
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A.
Jim Burke
Jim Burke is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Descendants" and "Green Book."
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B.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
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D.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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E.
David J. Burke
David J. Burke is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Odds Against Tomorrow ⓘ |
| associatedWith | bank heist ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor |
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959 film)
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linked to:
Odds Against Tomorrow
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| genreOfWork | film noir ⓘ |
| hasMoralAmbiguity | true ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | former police officer ⓘ |
| plans | high-stakes bank robbery ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | mastermind of a bank heist ⓘ |
| workGenreContext | crime drama ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1959 ⓘ |
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: Dave Burke Description of subject: Dave Burke is a central character in the 1959 film noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," depicted as a former police officer who masterminds a high-stakes bank heist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.