Steve Lacey
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Steve Lacey is the protagonist of the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave," a reformed ex-convict struggling to escape his criminal past when former associates draw him back into a web of crime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Lacey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042183 — 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)
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Target entity: Steve Lacey Context triple: [Crime Wave, character, Steve Lacey]
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A.
Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey is an American journalist and editor best known for serving in senior leadership roles at The New York Times, including overseeing major news coverage and editorial operations.
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B.
Mike Eley
Mike Eley is a British cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films and television dramas.
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C.
Dominic Letts
Dominic Letts is the son of British television producer, director, and writer Barry Letts.
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D.
Mark Shand
Mark Shand was a British travel writer, conservationist, and adventurer best known for his work protecting Asian elephants and for being the brother of Queen Camilla.
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E.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
- 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: Steve Lacey Target entity description: Steve Lacey is the protagonist of the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave," a reformed ex-convict struggling to escape his criminal past when former associates draw him back into a web of crime.
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A.
Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey is an American journalist and editor best known for serving in senior leadership roles at The New York Times, including overseeing major news coverage and editorial operations.
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B.
Mike Eley
Mike Eley is a British cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films and television dramas.
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C.
Dominic Letts
Dominic Letts is the son of British television producer, director, and writer Barry Letts.
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D.
Mark Shand
Mark Shand was a British travel writer, conservationist, and adventurer best known for his work protecting Asian elephants and for being the brother of Queen Camilla.
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E.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Crime Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
moral conflict
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past catching up ⓘ recidivism ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| characterArc | seeks honest life after prison ⓘ |
| characterType | reformed ex-convict ⓘ |
| conflict | former associates drawing him back into crime ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| filmGenreOfWork |
crime
ⓘ
noir ⓘ |
| genreContext | film noir ⓘ |
| hasPastAs | bank robber ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralDilemma | cooperate with police or protect himself from criminals ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
ex-convict
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former criminal ⓘ |
| pressuredBy | police investigation ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Crime Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strugglesWith | escaping his criminal past ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | former criminal associates ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1954 ⓘ |
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: Steve Lacey Description of subject: Steve Lacey is the protagonist of the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave," a reformed ex-convict struggling to escape his criminal past when former associates draw him back into a web of crime.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.