Lyn Cassady
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Lyn Cassady is a fictional former U.S. Army psychic soldier portrayed by George Clooney in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyn Cassady canonical | 1 |
| Lyn Cassady (fictional character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394957 — 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: Lyn Cassady Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Lyn Cassady]
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A.
Carolyn Cassady
Carolyn Cassady was an American writer and memoirist closely associated with the Beat Generation through her relationships with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac.
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B.
Patti Colson
Patti Colson is best known as the wife of the late Charles Colson, the former Nixon aide who became a prominent evangelical Christian leader and founder of Prison Fellowship.
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C.
Jo Francis
Jo Francis is a film editor best known for her work on the crime drama film "In the Valley of Elah."
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D.
Darlene Conner
Darlene Conner is a sarcastic, artistic middle child of the Conner family on the sitcom "Roseanne," known for her wit, rebellious streak, and later role as a writer and mother in the spin-off "The Conners."
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E.
Lynn Hendee
Lynn Hendee is a film producer known for her work on independent and character-driven movies such as "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
- 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: Lyn Cassady Target entity description: Lyn Cassady is a fictional former U.S. Army psychic soldier portrayed by George Clooney in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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A.
Carolyn Cassady
Carolyn Cassady was an American writer and memoirist closely associated with the Beat Generation through her relationships with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac.
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B.
Patti Colson
Patti Colson is best known as the wife of the late Charles Colson, the former Nixon aide who became a prominent evangelical Christian leader and founder of Prison Fellowship.
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C.
Jo Francis
Jo Francis is a film editor best known for her work on the crime drama film "In the Valley of Elah."
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D.
Darlene Conner
Darlene Conner is a sarcastic, artistic middle child of the Conner family on the sitcom "Roseanne," known for her wit, rebellious streak, and later role as a writer and mother in the spin-off "The Conners."
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E.
Lynn Hendee
Lynn Hendee is a film producer known for her work on independent and character-driven movies such as "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | character concepts from Jon Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats ⓘ |
| affiliation | New Earth Army ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
ⓘ
linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
|
| appearsInSetting | Iraq War era ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Jim Channon
ⓘ
members of the First Earth Battalion ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film adaptation)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| filmReleaseYearOfAppearance | 2009 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
satirical film
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war comedy ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
attempted stopping a goat’s heart psychically
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attempted telekinesis ⓘ psychic powers ⓘ remote viewing ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
eccentric ⓘ haunted by past missions ⓘ idealistic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
mentor figure ⓘ |
| occupation |
U.S. Army soldier
ⓘ
psychic soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | George Clooney ⓘ |
| servesAs | guide to Bob Wilton ⓘ |
| themeConnection |
military experimentation with paranormal research
ⓘ
satire of U.S. military programs ⓘ |
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: Lyn Cassady Description of subject: Lyn Cassady is a fictional former U.S. Army psychic soldier portrayed by George Clooney in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lyn Cassady