Lance Phelps
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Lance Phelps is a character from the dark comedy crime film "Novocaine," which follows a dentist whose life unravels after a series of criminal entanglements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lance Phelps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773825 — 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: Lance Phelps Context triple: [Novocaine, character, Lance Phelps]
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A.
Lance LePere
Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
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B.
Lance Sullivan
Lance Sullivan is a central character in the romantic comedy-drama film series "The Best Man," known as a successful professional athlete whose personal relationships and moral choices drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
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C.
Lance Barber
Lance Barber is an American television actor best known for his role as George Cooper Sr., Sheldon’s father, on the sitcom *Young Sheldon*.
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D.
Lance Quinn
Lance Quinn is a music producer best known for his work on Bon Jovi’s debut album "7800° Fahrenheit."
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E.
Lance Barton
Lance Barton is the aspiring African-American comedian who becomes the central figure in the body-swap afterlife comedy of the 2001 film "Down to 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: Lance Phelps Target entity description: Lance Phelps is a character from the dark comedy crime film "Novocaine," which follows a dentist whose life unravels after a series of criminal entanglements.
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A.
Lance LePere
Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
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B.
Lance Sullivan
Lance Sullivan is a central character in the romantic comedy-drama film series "The Best Man," known as a successful professional athlete whose personal relationships and moral choices drive much of the story’s emotional conflict.
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C.
Lance Barber
Lance Barber is an American television actor best known for his role as George Cooper Sr., Sheldon’s father, on the sitcom *Young Sheldon*.
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D.
Lance Quinn
Lance Quinn is a music producer best known for his work on Bon Jovi’s debut album "7800° Fahrenheit."
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E.
Lance Barton
Lance Barton is the aspiring African-American comedian who becomes the central figure in the body-swap afterlife comedy of the 2001 film "Down to Earth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Novocaine ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
crime
ⓘ
dark humor ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | screenplay of Novocaine ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Frank Sangster
ⓘ
criminal entanglements ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverseCreator | David Atkins ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | complicates protagonist’s life ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Novocaine universe ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWorkAppearedIn | 2001 ⓘ |
| workType | dark comedy crime film ⓘ |
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: Lance Phelps Description of subject: Lance Phelps is a character from the dark comedy crime film "Novocaine," which follows a dentist whose life unravels after a series of criminal entanglements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.