Del Griffith
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Del Griffith is a talkative, well-meaning but exasperating shower curtain ring salesman and one of the two central comedic leads in the film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Del Griffith canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834978 — 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: Del Griffith Context triple: [Planes, Trains and Automobiles, mainCharacter, Del Griffith]
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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D.
Ed Hartnett
Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- 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: Del Griffith Target entity description: Del Griffith is a talkative, well-meaning but exasperating shower curtain ring salesman and one of the two central comedic leads in the film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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D.
Ed Hartnett
Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Planes, Trains and Automobiles ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Thanksgiving film ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
road movie ⓘ |
| bodyType | overweight ⓘ |
| coLeadWith | Neal Page ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | John Hughes ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfFirstAppearance | 1987 ⓘ |
| friendOf | Neal Page ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | gray ⓘ |
| hasEmotionalArc | reveals his loneliness and lack of a home ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
exasperating
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friendly ⓘ lonely ⓘ messy ⓘ optimistic ⓘ overly familiar ⓘ sentimental ⓘ talkative ⓘ well-meaning ⓘ |
| homeCityInStory | unknown ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
comic relief ⓘ |
| notableQuote | “I like me. My wife likes me.” ⓘ |
| notableScene |
driving the burned-out car
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selling shower curtain rings as earrings ⓘ shared motel room with Neal Page ⓘ |
| occupation | shower curtain ring salesman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Candy ⓘ |
| primaryGoalInStory | get to Chicago for Thanksgiving ⓘ |
| relationshipToNealPage | travel companion ⓘ |
| setInUniverse |
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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surface form:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles universe
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| usesModeOfTransport |
automobile
ⓘ
bus ⓘ plane ⓘ train ⓘ truck ⓘ |
| wears | casual traveling clothes ⓘ |
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: Del Griffith Description of subject: Del Griffith is a talkative, well-meaning but exasperating shower curtain ring salesman and one of the two central comedic leads in the film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Neil Page