David Ghantt
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David Ghantt is a former armored car driver whose real-life involvement in the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery inspired the main character in the comedy film "Masterminds."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Ghantt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12374427 — 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: David Ghantt Context triple: [Masterminds, characterBasedOn, David Ghantt]
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A.
Dan Wootton
Dan Wootton is a New Zealand-born British journalist and broadcaster known for his outspoken, often controversial commentary on politics and popular culture.
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B.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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C.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
- 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: David Ghantt Target entity description: David Ghantt is a former armored car driver whose real-life involvement in the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery inspired the main character in the comedy film "Masterminds."
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A.
Dan Wootton
Dan Wootton is a New Zealand-born British journalist and broadcaster known for his outspoken, often controversial commentary on politics and popular culture.
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B.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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C.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Hank Corwin
Hank Corwin is an acclaimed American film editor known for his impressionistic, nonlinear cutting style on films such as The Tree of Life, The Big Short, and Vice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armored car driver
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bank robbery ⓘ criminal ⓘ film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| amountStolen | approximately 17 million US dollars ⓘ |
| basedOn | 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery ⓘ |
| convictedIn | United States federal court ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | bank robbery ⓘ |
| criminalPenalty | imprisonment ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970s (approximate) ⓘ |
| employer | Loomis Fargo & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn | Loomis Fargo robbery ⓘ |
| fledTo | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | Masterminds (2016 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterInspiredBy | David Ghantt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | interviews about Loomis Fargo robbery ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest following Loomis Fargo robbery
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extradition from Mexico ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1997 Loomis Fargo robbery
NERFINISHED
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inspiring a fictionalized protagonist in Masterminds (2016 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | armored car driver ⓘ |
| participant | David Ghantt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perpetrator | David Ghantt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1997 ⓘ |
| residenceAfterRelease | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | ringleader of the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery ⓘ |
| spouse | Tammy Ghantt (at time of robbery) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Masterminds (2016 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Charlotte, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 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: David Ghantt Description of subject: David Ghantt is a former armored car driver whose real-life involvement in the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery inspired the main character in the comedy film "Masterminds."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.