Harry Dalton
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Harry Dalton is the volcanologist protagonist in the disaster film "Dante's Peak," known for warning a small town about an impending volcanic eruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry Dalton canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10470603 — 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: Harry Dalton Context triple: [Dante's Peak, character, Harry Dalton]
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A.
Harry Dalton
Harry Dalton is a character in Peter Shaffer's psychological drama "Equus," involved in the story surrounding a troubled boy's obsession with horses.
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B.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
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C.
Henry Tracy
Henry Tracy is one of the children of American television journalist and news anchor Norah O'Donnell.
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D.
Henry Gayden
Henry Gayden is an American screenwriter best known for writing the superhero film "Shazam!" and its sequel in the DC Extended Universe.
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E.
James Duddridge
James Duddridge is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Rochford and Southend East and has held various ministerial roles, including in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- 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: Harry Dalton Target entity description: Harry Dalton is the volcanologist protagonist in the disaster film "Dante's Peak," known for warning a small town about an impending volcanic eruption.
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A.
Harry Dalton
Harry Dalton is a character in Peter Shaffer's psychological drama "Equus," involved in the story surrounding a troubled boy's obsession with horses.
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B.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
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C.
Henry Tracy
Henry Tracy is one of the children of American television journalist and news anchor Norah O'Donnell.
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D.
Henry Gayden
Henry Gayden is an American screenwriter best known for writing the superhero film "Shazam!" and its sequel in the DC Extended Universe.
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E.
James Duddridge
James Duddridge is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Rochford and Southend East and has held various ministerial roles, including in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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volcanologist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | eruption of the volcano near Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
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cautious ⓘ dedicated ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | feature film ⓘ |
| employer | United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
seismology
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volcanology ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| genre | disaster film character ⓘ |
| knownFor | warning Dante's Peak about an impending volcanic eruption ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | disaster predictor ⓘ |
| occupation | volcanologist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Pierce Brosnan ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| warns | town of Dante's Peak ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Harry Dalton Description of subject: Harry Dalton is the volcanologist protagonist in the disaster film "Dante's Peak," known for warning a small town about an impending volcanic eruption.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.