Ray Nicolette
E156797
Ray Nicolette is a fictional ATF agent who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novels and their film adaptations, notably portrayed by Michael Keaton in "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Nicolette canonical | 3 |
| Ray Nicolet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T550762 — 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: Ray Nicolette Context triple: [Jackie Brown, character, Ray Nicolette]
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A.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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B.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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C.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- 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: Ray Nicolette Target entity description: Ray Nicolette is a fictional ATF agent who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novels and their film adaptations, notably portrayed by Michael Keaton in "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight."
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A.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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B.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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C.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
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D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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law enforcement officer ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jackie Brown (1997 film)
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surface form:
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (1997 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Jackie Brown (film)
Out of Sight ⓘ Out of Sight ⓘ
surface form:
Out of Sight (film)
Rum Punch ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Rum Punch ⓘ |
| genre | crime fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | federal agent ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse |
Elmore Leonard
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surface form:
Elmore Leonard universe
|
| notablePortrayal |
Michael Keaton in Jackie Brown
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Michael Keaton in Out of Sight ⓘ |
| occupation | ATF agent ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Keaton ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Florida
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Ray Nicolette Description of subject: Ray Nicolette is a fictional ATF agent who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novels and their film adaptations, notably portrayed by Michael Keaton in "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ray Nicolet