Dennis Alan
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Dennis Alan is the main protagonist of the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," a Harvard anthropologist who investigates Haitian voodoo and zombification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Alan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609790 — 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: Dennis Alan Context triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, leadCharacter, Dennis Alan]
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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C.
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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D.
David Ditzel
David Ditzel is a computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Transmeta and for his work on low-power, innovative microprocessor designs.
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E.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
- 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: Dennis Alan Target entity description: Dennis Alan is the main protagonist of the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," a Harvard anthropologist who investigates Haitian voodoo and zombification.
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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C.
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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D.
David Ditzel
David Ditzel is a computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Transmeta and for his work on low-power, innovative microprocessor designs.
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E.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Harvard University ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Serpent and the Rainbow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
voodoo rituals
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zombie folklore ⓘ |
| basedOn | Wade Davis (ethnobotanist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| faces |
political repression in Haiti
ⓘ
supernatural threats ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Serpent and the Rainbow (film universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | anthropology ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | The Serpent and the Rainbow (non-fiction book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| investigates |
Haitian Vodou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
zombification ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainProtagonistOf | The Serpent and the Rainbow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | investigator ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | anthropologist ⓘ |
| partOf | The Serpent and the Rainbow franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Pullman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Haiti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | pharmaceutical company (in film plot) ⓘ |
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: Dennis Alan Description of subject: Dennis Alan is the main protagonist of the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," a Harvard anthropologist who investigates Haitian voodoo and zombification.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.