Duke (The Secret Life of Pets)
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Duke is the large, shaggy, brown rescue dog who becomes Max’s new canine companion in the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke (The Secret Life of Pets) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6051948 — 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: Duke (The Secret Life of Pets) Context triple: [Max (The Secret Life of Pets), bestFriend, Duke (The Secret Life of Pets)]
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A.
Max (The Secret Life of Pets)
Max is the main Jack Russell Terrier protagonist of the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets," known for his loyal, anxious personality and comedic adventures in New York City.
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B.
Chico the Chihuahua
Chico the Chihuahua is the lively, costumed canine mascot of the El Paso Chihuahuas minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and community events.
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C.
Buddy the Dog
Buddy the Dog is the golden retriever who played the basketball-playing canine protagonist in the family film "Air Bud."
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D.
Uggie
Uggie was a famous Jack Russell Terrier dog actor best known for his acclaimed role in the silent film "The Artist."
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E.
Pooch
Pooch is a skilled and resourceful member of the elite black-ops team in the action film "The Losers."
- 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: Duke (The Secret Life of Pets) Target entity description: Duke is the large, shaggy, brown rescue dog who becomes Max’s new canine companion in the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets."
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A.
Max (The Secret Life of Pets)
Max is the main Jack Russell Terrier protagonist of the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets," known for his loyal, anxious personality and comedic adventures in New York City.
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B.
Chico the Chihuahua
Chico the Chihuahua is the lively, costumed canine mascot of the El Paso Chihuahuas minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and community events.
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C.
Buddy the Dog
Buddy the Dog is the golden retriever who played the basketball-playing canine protagonist in the family film "Air Bud."
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D.
Uggie
Uggie was a famous Jack Russell Terrier dog actor best known for his acclaimed role in the silent film "The Artist."
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E.
Pooch
Pooch is a skilled and resourceful member of the elite black-ops team in the action film "The Losers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film character
ⓘ
character in The Secret Life of Pets ⓘ fictional dog ⓘ |
| appearance | large and shaggy ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Secret Life of Pets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Secret Life of Pets 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backstory | rescued from the pound by Katie ⓘ |
| cohabitsWith | Max (The Secret Life of Pets) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Max (The Secret Life of Pets) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Illumination Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| event | gets lost in New York with Max ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
The Secret Life of Pets promotional materials
ⓘ
The Secret Life of Pets video games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Secret Life of Pets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | The Secret Life of Pets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseStudio | Illumination Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| furColor | brown ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | animated comedy ⓘ |
| hasMerchandise |
figurine
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plush toy ⓘ |
| homeLocation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| medium | animated film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | deuteragonist ⓘ |
| ownerInStory | Katie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
clumsy
ⓘ
good-natured ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| role |
Max’s canine companion
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rescue dog ⓘ |
| searchesFor | former owner ⓘ |
| species | dog ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| voicedBy | Eric Stonestreet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2016 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Duke (The Secret Life of Pets) Description of subject: Duke is the large, shaggy, brown rescue dog who becomes Max’s new canine companion in the animated film "The Secret Life of Pets."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.