Madgett
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Madgett is a coroner character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid storytelling and involvement in the film’s intricate games surrounding death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madgett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660882 — 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: Madgett Context triple: [Drowning by Numbers, character, Madgett]
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Crossfield
Crossfield is a surname most notably associated with Scott Crossfield, a pioneering American test pilot and aeronautical engineer.
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D.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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E.
Hagerman
Hagerman is a small town in southeastern New Mexico, known for its agricultural community and location along the Pecos River.
- 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: Madgett Target entity description: Madgett is a coroner character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid storytelling and involvement in the film’s intricate games surrounding death.
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Crossfield
Crossfield is a surname most notably associated with Scott Crossfield, a pioneering American test pilot and aeronautical engineer.
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D.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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E.
Hagerman
Hagerman is a small town in southeastern New Mexico, known for its agricultural community and location along the Pecos River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
counting
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death ⓘ games ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| characterType | eccentric professional ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Peter Greenaway ⓘ |
| genreContext | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
commentary on mortality
ⓘ
linking separate deaths in the plot ⓘ |
| involvedIn | intricate games surrounding death ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic figure
ⓘ
guide to death-related games ⓘ storyteller ⓘ |
| occupation | coroner ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| specializesIn | investigating deaths ⓘ |
| toneOfStorytelling | morbid ⓘ |
| workReleasedIn | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Madgett Description of subject: Madgett is a coroner character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid storytelling and involvement in the film’s intricate games surrounding death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.