Raoul Duke
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Raoul Duke is the drug-fueled, semi-autobiographical alter ego of Hunter S. Thompson who narrates the surreal, chaotic journey at the heart of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raoul Duke canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659068 — 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: Raoul Duke Context triple: [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, mainCharacter, Raoul Duke]
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A.
Dick Diver
Dick Diver is a charismatic but ultimately tragic American psychiatrist whose personal and professional decline forms the emotional core of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
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B.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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C.
Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady was an American writer and charismatic drifter whose freewheeling lifestyle and letters deeply influenced the Beat Generation, most famously inspiring the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road."
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D.
Treves
Treves was a prominent Italian publishing house known for issuing major literary works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- 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: Raoul Duke Target entity description: Raoul Duke is the drug-fueled, semi-autobiographical alter ego of Hunter S. Thompson who narrates the surreal, chaotic journey at the heart of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
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A.
Dick Diver
Dick Diver is a charismatic but ultimately tragic American psychiatrist whose personal and professional decline forms the emotional core of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
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B.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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C.
Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady was an American writer and charismatic drifter whose freewheeling lifestyle and letters deeply influenced the Beat Generation, most famously inspiring the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road."
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D.
Treves
Treves was a prominent Italian publishing house known for issuing major literary works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Raoul Duke Description of subject: Raoul Duke is the drug-fueled, semi-autobiographical alter ego of Hunter S. Thompson who narrates the surreal, chaotic journey at the heart of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.