Tom Cody
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Tom Cody is the tough, laconic ex-soldier and mercenary hero who returns to his hometown to rescue his former lover from a biker gang in the 1984 rock-and-roll action film "Streets of Fire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Cody canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983752 — 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: Tom Cody Context triple: [Streets of Fire, character, Tom Cody]
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A.
John Turman
John Turman is an American screenwriter best known for his work on superhero and science fiction films, including contributions to Marvel-related projects.
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B.
Seth Bullock
Seth Bullock was a Canadian-American frontiersman, lawman, and businessman who became the first sheriff of Deadwood in the Dakota Territory and a prominent figure in the town’s early history.
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C.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
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D.
Thomas Ewing
Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
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E.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
- 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: Tom Cody Target entity description: Tom Cody is the tough, laconic ex-soldier and mercenary hero who returns to his hometown to rescue his former lover from a biker gang in the 1984 rock-and-roll action film "Streets of Fire."
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A.
John Turman
John Turman is an American screenwriter best known for his work on superhero and science fiction films, including contributions to Marvel-related projects.
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B.
Seth Bullock
Seth Bullock was a Canadian-American frontiersman, lawman, and businessman who became the first sheriff of Deadwood in the Dakota Territory and a prominent figure in the town’s early history.
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C.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
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D.
Thomas Ewing
Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
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E.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ally |
Billy Fish
ⓘ
McCoy ⓘ |
| antagonist | Raven Shaddock ⓘ |
| antagonistGroup | The Bombers ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Streets of Fire ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
laconic
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| creator |
Larry Gross
ⓘ
Walter Hill ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | rock-and-roll action film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Streets of Fire (1984)
ⓘ
linked to:
Streets of Fire
|
| hasSibling | Reva Cody ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Ellen Aim ⓘ |
| militaryBackground | veteran of an unspecified war ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableScene | final sledgehammer duel with Raven Shaddock ⓘ |
| notableWeapon |
shotgun
ⓘ
sledgehammer ⓘ |
| occupation |
ex-soldier
ⓘ
mercenary ⓘ |
| personality |
reluctant hero
ⓘ
stoic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Paré ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | rescue Ellen Aim ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | former lover of Ellen Aim ⓘ |
| returnsTo | his hometown ⓘ |
| screenWriter |
Larry Gross
ⓘ
Walter Hill ⓘ |
| setting | urban, stylized, retro-futuristic city ⓘ |
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: Tom Cody Description of subject: Tom Cody is the tough, laconic ex-soldier and mercenary hero who returns to his hometown to rescue his former lover from a biker gang in the 1984 rock-and-roll action film "Streets of Fire."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.