Mr. Hand
E916393
Mr. Hand is the strict, no-nonsense high school history teacher from the film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," known for his clashes with the laid-back student Jeff Spicoli.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Hand canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11277236 — 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: Mr. Hand Context triple: [Ray Walston, role, Mr. Hand]
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A.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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B.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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C.
Johnny Vanning
Johnny Vanning is the ruthless gangster antagonist in the 1937 crime drama film "Marked Woman."
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D.
Mr. Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins is the father of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- 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: Mr. Hand Target entity description: Mr. Hand is the strict, no-nonsense high school history teacher from the film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," known for his clashes with the laid-back student Jeff Spicoli.
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A.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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B.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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C.
Johnny Vanning
Johnny Vanning is the ruthless gangster antagonist in the 1937 crime drama film "Marked Woman."
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D.
Mr. Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins is the father of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| alignment | strict but ultimately concerned teacher ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmGenre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
teen comedy ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cameron Crowe’s observations of real teachers ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
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disciplinarian ⓘ no-nonsense ⓘ serious ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | Jeff Spicoli ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Cameron Crowe ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfAppearance | Amy Heckerling ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | American teen film ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Mr. Hand ⓘ |
| knownFor |
confiscating Jeff Spicoli’s pizza
ⓘ
questioning students about wasting time ⓘ strict classroom rules ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist to Jeff Spicoli
ⓘ
teacher figure ⓘ |
| notableSceneWith | Jeff Spicoli ⓘ |
| occupation |
high school teacher
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history teacher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (franchise/cultural property)
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linked to:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
|
| portrayedBy | Ray Walston ⓘ |
| setting | Southern California high school ⓘ |
| teachesLevel | high school ⓘ |
| teachesSubject | history ⓘ |
| teachesTo |
Jeff Spicoli
ⓘ
students at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ridgemont High School ⓘ |
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: Mr. Hand Description of subject: Mr. Hand is the strict, no-nonsense high school history teacher from the film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," known for his clashes with the laid-back student Jeff Spicoli.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.