Dan Mulligan
E1030590
Dan Mulligan is a fictional, down-on-his-luck music producer portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in the film "Begin Again."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Mulligan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11954445 — 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: Dan Mulligan Context triple: [Gretta James, collaboratesWith, Dan Mulligan]
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A.
Paul Mullen
Paul Mullen is a Scottish-born American rugby union player who has represented the United States national team as a prop.
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B.
Sean McNulty
Sean McNulty is a minor character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as one of detective Jimmy McNulty's sons.
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C.
Tim Mulligan
Tim Mulligan is a music producer and audio engineer known for his work on projects such as the album "Like a Hurricane."
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Dan Fagan
Dan Fagan is a notable individual recognized for achievements associated with the surname Fagan.
- 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: Dan Mulligan Target entity description: Dan Mulligan is a fictional, down-on-his-luck music producer portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in the film "Begin Again."
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A.
Paul Mullen
Paul Mullen is a Scottish-born American rugby union player who has represented the United States national team as a prop.
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B.
Sean McNulty
Sean McNulty is a minor character in the television series "The Wire," known primarily as one of detective Jimmy McNulty's sons.
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C.
Tim Mulligan
Tim Mulligan is a music producer and audio engineer known for his work on projects such as the album "Like a Hurricane."
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Dan Fagan
Dan Fagan is a notable individual recognized for achievements associated with the surname Fagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Begin Again NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | record label Distressed Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
disillusioned
ⓘ
down-on-his-luck ⓘ passionate about music ⓘ |
| coFounds | independent live album project with Gretta James ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | John Carney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Begin Again NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfFirstAppearance | 2013 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Begin Again ⓘ |
| formerPartner | Saul Brenner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Violet Mulligan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDaughter | Violet Mulligan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasExSpouse | Miriam Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Gretta James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Miriam Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | music producer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mark Ruffalo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
alcohol use
ⓘ
career decline ⓘ |
| worksIn | music industry ⓘ |
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: Dan Mulligan Description of subject: Dan Mulligan is a fictional, down-on-his-luck music producer portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in the film "Begin Again."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.