Douglas Quaid
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Douglas Quaid is the amnesiac construction worker-turned-reluctant hero in the science fiction film "Total Recall," who discovers his true identity amid a mind-bending conspiracy involving Mars and memory implants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Quaid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4440859 — 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: Douglas Quaid Context triple: [Total Recall, character, Douglas Quaid]
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A.
Golan Trevize
Golan Trevize is a starship pilot and councilman from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, known for his intuitive decision-making that shapes the future course of the galaxy.
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B.
Elijah Baley
Elijah Baley is a pragmatic, Earth-born human detective from Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known for his partnership with the robot R. Daneel Olivaw in solving futuristic murder mysteries.
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C.
John the Savage
John the Savage is a central character in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel "Brave New World," whose outsider status and moral conflict highlight the dehumanizing effects of a technologically controlled society.
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D.
James Cole
James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
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E.
Lyndon Rush
Lyndon Rush is a Canadian bobsledder who won Olympic bronze in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
- 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: Douglas Quaid Target entity description: Douglas Quaid is the amnesiac construction worker-turned-reluctant hero in the science fiction film "Total Recall," who discovers his true identity amid a mind-bending conspiracy involving Mars and memory implants.
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A.
Golan Trevize
Golan Trevize is a starship pilot and councilman from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, known for his intuitive decision-making that shapes the future course of the galaxy.
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B.
Elijah Baley
Elijah Baley is a pragmatic, Earth-born human detective from Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known for his partnership with the robot R. Daneel Olivaw in solving futuristic murder mysteries.
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C.
John the Savage
John the Savage is a central character in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel "Brave New World," whose outsider status and moral conflict highlight the dehumanizing effects of a technologically controlled society.
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D.
James Cole
James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
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E.
Lyndon Rush
Lyndon Rush is a Canadian bobsledder who won Olympic bronze in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Paul Verhoeven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Hauser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Total Recall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Douglas Quail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | We Can Remember It for You Wholesale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Philip K. Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Lori Quaid
NERFINISHED
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Vilos Cohaagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Paul Verhoeven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmWriterOfWork |
Dan O’Bannon
NERFINISHED
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Gary Goldman NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Shusett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAllegiance | Martian rebels ⓘ |
| hasRemakeCounterpart | Douglas Quaid (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Lori Quaid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait | amnesiac ⓘ |
| homeLocation | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involves |
conspiracy
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identity crisis ⓘ memory implants ⓘ mind control ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationalityInFilm | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
overthrowing Cohaagen
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questioning reality ⓘ |
| occupation | construction worker ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Total Recall franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Arnold Schwarzenegger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | reluctant hero ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | future ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate power
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free will ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| undergoesProcedure | Rekall memory implantation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponUsed |
handgun
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machine gun ⓘ |
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: Douglas Quaid Description of subject: Douglas Quaid is the amnesiac construction worker-turned-reluctant hero in the science fiction film "Total Recall," who discovers his true identity amid a mind-bending conspiracy involving Mars and memory implants.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.