A psychiatric patient named Prot claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, leading his psychiatrist to question the nature of Prot’s identity.
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K-PAX is a science fiction drama story centered on a mysterious psychiatric patient who insists he is an alien, blurring the line between mental illness and possible extraterrestrial origin.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16456978 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A psychiatric patient named Prot claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, leading his psychiatrist to question the nature of Prot’s identity. Context triple: [K-PAX, plotSummary, A psychiatric patient named Prot claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, leading his psychiatrist to question the nature of Prot’s identity.]
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A.
The Stranger in "Teorema"
The Stranger in "Teorema" is a mysterious, seductive visitor whose brief presence upends the emotional and spiritual lives of a bourgeois Italian family in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film.
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B.
The Psychiatrist
"The Psychiatrist" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a visiting psychiatrist and Basil Fawlty’s escalating paranoia and attempts at deception.
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C.
Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
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D.
Corky Laing
Corky Laing is a Canadian rock drummer best known as a longtime member of the hard rock band Mountain.
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E.
The Minds of Billy Milligan
The Minds of Billy Milligan is a nonfiction book by Daniel Keyes that chronicles the life and multiple personalities of Billy Milligan, the first person in U.S. history acquitted of major crimes by reason of dissociative identity disorder.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A psychiatric patient named Prot claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, leading his psychiatrist to question the nature of Prot’s identity. Target entity description: K-PAX is a science fiction drama story centered on a mysterious psychiatric patient who insists he is an alien, blurring the line between mental illness and possible extraterrestrial origin.
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A.
The Stranger in "Teorema"
The Stranger in "Teorema" is a mysterious, seductive visitor whose brief presence upends the emotional and spiritual lives of a bourgeois Italian family in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film.
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B.
The Psychiatrist
"The Psychiatrist" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a visiting psychiatrist and Basil Fawlty’s escalating paranoia and attempts at deception.
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C.
Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of the 1976 science fiction film "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking water for his dying planet and becomes corrupted by human society.
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D.
Corky Laing
Corky Laing is a Canadian rock drummer best known as a longtime member of the hard rock band Mountain.
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E.
The Minds of Billy Milligan
The Minds of Billy Milligan is a nonfiction book by Daniel Keyes that chronicles the life and multiple personalities of Billy Milligan, the first person in U.S. history acquitted of major crimes by reason of dissociative identity disorder.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
K-PAX
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plotSummary
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A psychiatric patient named Prot claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX, leading his psychiatrist to question the nature of Prot’s identity.
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