Eddie Dodd
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Eddie Dodd is a jaded former civil rights lawyer who becomes reinvigorated while defending a wrongfully convicted man in the legal thriller film "True Believer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddie Dodd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839670 — 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)
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Target entity: Eddie Dodd Context triple: [True Believer, mainCharacter, Eddie Dodd]
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A.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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B.
Eddie Offord
Eddie Offord is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his influential work on classic progressive rock albums by bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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C.
Eddie Borden
Eddie Borden was an American character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous films during the 1920s and 1930s, often in supporting or comic roles.
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D.
Eddie Dawkins
Eddie Dawkins is a New Zealand track cyclist best known as a world-class sprint specialist and Olympic medalist representing his country in international competitions.
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E.
Eddie Livingstone
Eddie Livingstone was an early 20th-century Canadian sports executive best known for his controversial role in professional ice hockey and his conflicts that helped lead to the formation of the NHL.
- 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: Eddie Dodd Target entity description: Eddie Dodd is a jaded former civil rights lawyer who becomes reinvigorated while defending a wrongfully convicted man in the legal thriller film "True Believer."
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A.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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B.
Eddie Offord
Eddie Offord is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his influential work on classic progressive rock albums by bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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C.
Eddie Borden
Eddie Borden was an American character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous films during the 1920s and 1930s, often in supporting or comic roles.
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D.
Eddie Dawkins
Eddie Dawkins is a New Zealand track cyclist best known as a world-class sprint specialist and Olympic medalist representing his country in international competitions.
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E.
Eddie Livingstone
Eddie Livingstone was an early 20th-century Canadian sports executive best known for his controversial role in professional ice hockey and his conflicts that helped lead to the formation of the NHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | True Believer ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | legal thriller film ⓘ |
| characterArc | reinvigorated by defending a wrongfully convicted man ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States (fictional)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| createdFor |
True Believer (screenplay)
ⓘ
linked to:
True Believer
|
| defends | wrongfully convicted man ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
True Believer (1989 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
True Believer
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| genreOfWorkContext | courtroom drama ⓘ |
| hasStudentOrProtégé | Roger Baron ⓘ |
| hasTheme | redemption through law practice ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
dedicated to justice ⓘ idealistic (formerly) ⓘ jaded ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging wrongful conviction
ⓘ
courtroom advocacy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | seeks justice over procedure ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights lawyer
ⓘ
defense attorney ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Woods ⓘ |
| relationshipToRogerBaron | mentor ⓘ |
| specializesIn | civil rights cases ⓘ |
| uses | unconventional legal tactics ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City (fictional setting) ⓘ |
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: Eddie Dodd Description of subject: Eddie Dodd is a jaded former civil rights lawyer who becomes reinvigorated while defending a wrongfully convicted man in the legal thriller film "True Believer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.