Lawrence Talbot
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Lawrence Talbot is the tormented nobleman who becomes a cursed werewolf at the center of the 2010 horror film "The Wolfman."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Talbot | 4 |
| Lawrence Talbot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4063830 — 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: Lawrence Talbot Context triple: [The Wolfman (2010 film), mainCharacter, Lawrence Talbot]
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A.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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B.
Moses Gunn
Moses Gunn was an acclaimed American actor known for his powerful stage performances and notable film and television roles, including appearances in works like "Shaft" and "Roots."
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C.
Frederic Forrest
Frederic Forrest was an American character actor best known for his intense, memorable roles in films of the 1970s and 1980s, including collaborations with directors like Francis Ford Coppola.
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D.
Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer was a distinguished English character actor known for his refined, often authoritative roles in British stage and film productions of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jaime King
Jaime King is an American actress and former fashion model known for her roles in films like "Sin City" and the television series "Hart of Dixie."
- 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: Lawrence Talbot Target entity description: Lawrence Talbot is the tormented nobleman who becomes a cursed werewolf at the center of the 2010 horror film "The Wolfman."
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A.
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
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B.
Moses Gunn
Moses Gunn was an acclaimed American actor known for his powerful stage performances and notable film and television roles, including appearances in works like "Shaft" and "Roots."
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C.
Frederic Forrest
Frederic Forrest was an American character actor best known for his intense, memorable roles in films of the 1970s and 1980s, including collaborations with directors like Francis Ford Coppola.
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D.
Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer was a distinguished English character actor known for his refined, often authoritative roles in British stage and film productions of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Jaime King
Jaime King is an American actress and former fashion model known for her roles in films like "Sin City" and the television series "Hart of Dixie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ werewolf ⓘ |
| afflictedBy | lycanthropy ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Wolfman
ⓘ
surface form:
The Wolfman (2010 film)
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| basedOn |
Lawrence Talbot
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Larry Talbot
The Wolf Man ⓘ
surface form:
The Wolf Man (1941 film character)
|
| causeOfCurse | werewolf bite ⓘ |
| createdFor |
The Wolfman
ⓘ
surface form:
The Wolfman (2010 film)
|
| familyName | Talbot ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Universal Classic Monsters ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | horror ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 2010 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence ⓘ |
| hasFather | Sir John Talbot ⓘ |
| homeCountry | England ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | nobleman ⓘ |
| notableAbility | transformation into a werewolf ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
cursed
ⓘ
haunted by his past ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
tormented
ⓘ
tragic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Benicio del Toro ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | struggle with his werewolf curse ⓘ |
| setting | Blackmoor ⓘ |
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: Lawrence Talbot Description of subject: Lawrence Talbot is the tormented nobleman who becomes a cursed werewolf at the center of the 2010 horror film "The Wolfman."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Wolfman (2010 film)
this entity surface form:
Larry Talbot
this entity surface form:
Larry Talbot
this entity surface form:
Larry Talbot
this entity surface form:
Larry Talbot