Roger Collins
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Roger Collins is a character in the Dark Shadows universe, typically portrayed as a wealthy and somewhat aloof member of the Collins family who becomes entangled in the supernatural events surrounding their ancestral estate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Collins canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016528 — 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: Roger Collins Context triple: [Dark Shadows (2012 film), character, Roger Collins]
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Charles Sims
Charles Sims was a British painter known for his evocative figurative and allegorical works, some of which were created in connection with World War I commemorations.
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C.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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D.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
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E.
Cecil Collins
Cecil Collins is a former American football running back who played in the NFL, most notably for the Miami Dolphins, whose promising career was derailed by legal troubles.
- 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: Roger Collins Target entity description: Roger Collins is a character in the Dark Shadows universe, typically portrayed as a wealthy and somewhat aloof member of the Collins family who becomes entangled in the supernatural events surrounding their ancestral estate.
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Charles Sims
Charles Sims was a British painter known for his evocative figurative and allegorical works, some of which were created in connection with World War I commemorations.
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C.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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D.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
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E.
Cecil Collins
Cecil Collins is a former American football running back who played in the NFL, most notably for the Miami Dolphins, whose promising career was derailed by legal troubles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dark Shadows character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Dark Shadows (1966 TV series)
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surface form:
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows (1966 TV series) ⓘ Dark Shadows (1991 TV series) ⓘ Dark Shadows (film series) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Collinsport, Maine
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surface form:
Collinsport
Collinwood ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dan Curtis ⓘ |
| entangledIn |
family curses
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ghostly hauntings ⓘ supernatural events at Collinwood ⓘ |
| familyName | Collins ⓘ |
| genre | gothic soap opera ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
aloof
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aristocratic ⓘ cynical ⓘ skeptical of the supernatural ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Collinses
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surface form:
Collins family
|
| occupation |
businessman
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executive at Collins Enterprises ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Louis Edmonds
ⓘ
other actors in Dark Shadows adaptations ⓘ |
| relative |
Alexis Collins
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Barnabas Collins ⓘ Carolyn Stoddard ⓘ David Collins ⓘ Elizabeth Collins Stoddard ⓘ Laura Collins ⓘ |
| residesIn | Collinwood ⓘ |
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: Roger Collins Description of subject: Roger Collins is a character in the Dark Shadows universe, typically portrayed as a wealthy and somewhat aloof member of the Collins family who becomes entangled in the supernatural events surrounding their ancestral estate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.