Dr. Richard Walker
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Dr. Richard Walker is the American physician protagonist of the 1988 thriller film "Frantic," portrayed by Harrison Ford as a man desperately searching for his missing wife in Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Richard Walker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11235305 — 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: Dr. Richard Walker Context triple: [Frantic, mainCharacter, Dr. Richard Walker]
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A.
Dr. Robert Elliott
Dr. Robert Elliott is the troubled psychiatrist and central figure in Brian De Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
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B.
Dr. Martin Whitly
Dr. Martin Whitly is a brilliant but deeply disturbed serial killer and manipulative father at the center of the crime drama series "Prodigal Son."
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C.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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D.
Dr. Alan Hill
Dr. Alan Hill is a mysterious psychiatrist in the horror video game "Until Dawn" who conducts unsettling therapy sessions that gradually reveal psychological themes and hidden truths about the story and its characters.
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E.
Dr. Robert Morgan
Dr. Robert Morgan is the isolated, plague-immune protagonist who struggles to survive and retain his sanity in the post-apocalyptic horror story "The Last Man on Earth."
- 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: Dr. Richard Walker Target entity description: Dr. Richard Walker is the American physician protagonist of the 1988 thriller film "Frantic," portrayed by Harrison Ford as a man desperately searching for his missing wife in Paris.
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A.
Dr. Robert Elliott
Dr. Robert Elliott is the troubled psychiatrist and central figure in Brian De Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
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B.
Dr. Martin Whitly
Dr. Martin Whitly is a brilliant but deeply disturbed serial killer and manipulative father at the center of the crime drama series "Prodigal Son."
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C.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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D.
Dr. Alan Hill
Dr. Alan Hill is a mysterious psychiatrist in the horror video game "Until Dawn" who conducts unsettling therapy sessions that gradually reveal psychological themes and hidden truths about the story and its characters.
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E.
Dr. Robert Morgan
Dr. Robert Morgan is the isolated, plague-immune protagonist who struggles to survive and retain his sanity in the post-apocalyptic horror story "The Last Man on Earth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Frantic ⓘ |
| associatedLocationInStory |
Paris, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Paris
hotel in Paris ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay for Frantic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Gérard Brach
ⓘ
Roman Polanski ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Frantic (1988 film universe)
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Frantic"
|
| filmDirectorOfWork | Roman Polanski ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfWork | 1988 ⓘ |
| filmTitle | Frantic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | thriller film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist of Frantic ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
conducts his own investigation in Paris
ⓘ
reports his wife’s disappearance to Parisian authorities ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
determined
ⓘ
devoted husband ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| occupation |
doctor
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| plotInvolves |
international intrigue
ⓘ
kidnapping ⓘ mistaken identity ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Harrison Ford ⓘ |
| portrayedByInYear | Harrison Ford in 1988 ⓘ |
| primarySettingOfStory | Paris ⓘ |
| professionContext | visiting Paris for a medical conference ⓘ |
| searchesFor | his missing wife ⓘ |
| spouse | Sondra Walker ⓘ |
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: Dr. Richard Walker Description of subject: Dr. Richard Walker is the American physician protagonist of the 1988 thriller film "Frantic," portrayed by Harrison Ford as a man desperately searching for his missing wife in Paris.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Frantic"