Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
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Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is the neurotic psychiatrist protagonist of Mel Brooks's parody film "High Anxiety," known for spoofing Alfred Hitchcock-style thrillers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7256928 — 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: Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke Context triple: [High Anxiety, character, Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke]
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A.
Dr. George C. Chapman
Dr. George C. Chapman is a fictional research psychologist who leads a controversial study on American women's sexual behavior in Irving Wallace's novel and its film adaptation, "The Chapman Report."
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B.
Dr. Edgar Highley
Dr. Edgar Highley is a fictional character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "The Cradle Will Fall," involved in the book’s central medical and legal intrigue.
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C.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Dr. Louis Judd
Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
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E.
John Howard Redfield
John Howard Redfield was a 19th-century American botanist and naturalist known for his contributions to the study and classification of North American plant species.
- 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: Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke Target entity description: Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is the neurotic psychiatrist protagonist of Mel Brooks's parody film "High Anxiety," known for spoofing Alfred Hitchcock-style thrillers.
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A.
Dr. George C. Chapman
Dr. George C. Chapman is a fictional research psychologist who leads a controversial study on American women's sexual behavior in Irving Wallace's novel and its film adaptation, "The Chapman Report."
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B.
Dr. Edgar Highley
Dr. Edgar Highley is a fictional character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "The Cradle Will Fall," involved in the book’s central medical and legal intrigue.
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C.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Dr. Louis Judd
Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
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E.
John Howard Redfield
John Howard Redfield was a 19th-century American botanist and naturalist known for his contributions to the study and classification of North American plant species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
thriller parody ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hitchcock-style suspense tropes ⓘ |
| characterIn | High Anxiety NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| comicFunction | spoofs Hitchcockian heroes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalDisorder | acrophobia-like fear (high anxiety) ⓘ |
| fictionalProfession | director of a psychiatric institute ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | High Anxiety NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | parody film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Doctor ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main character ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
neurotic
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suffers from high anxiety ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| parodiesStyleOf | Alfred Hitchcock thrillers ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | High Anxiety NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | Hitchcock films (parody/inspiration) ⓘ |
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: Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke Description of subject: Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is the neurotic psychiatrist protagonist of Mel Brooks's parody film "High Anxiety," known for spoofing Alfred Hitchcock-style thrillers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.