Lou Peckinpaugh
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Lou Peckinpaugh is the bumbling, hard-boiled private detective protagonist in the 1978 film parody "The Cheap Detective," modeled after classic film noir sleuths like Humphrey Bogart’s characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lou Peckinpaugh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354693 — 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: Lou Peckinpaugh Context triple: [The Cheap Detective, character, Lou Peckinpaugh]
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A.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Norville Barnes
Norville Barnes is the naive yet ambitious mailroom clerk who unexpectedly rises to corporate power in the Coen brothers’ film "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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C.
Tom Spaulding
Tom Spaulding is the young boy protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel "Dandelion Wine," through whose summer experiences the story’s nostalgic and magical view of small-town life is revealed.
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D.
Roger Cobb
Roger Cobb is the harried, skeptical lawyer who becomes comically entangled with a deceased heiress’s spirit in the 1984 fantasy-comedy film "All of Me."
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E.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
- 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: Lou Peckinpaugh Target entity description: Lou Peckinpaugh is the bumbling, hard-boiled private detective protagonist in the 1978 film parody "The Cheap Detective," modeled after classic film noir sleuths like Humphrey Bogart’s characters.
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A.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Norville Barnes
Norville Barnes is the naive yet ambitious mailroom clerk who unexpectedly rises to corporate power in the Coen brothers’ film "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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C.
Tom Spaulding
Tom Spaulding is the young boy protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel "Dandelion Wine," through whose summer experiences the story’s nostalgic and magical view of small-town life is revealed.
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D.
Roger Cobb
Roger Cobb is the harried, skeptical lawyer who becomes comically entangled with a deceased heiress’s spirit in the 1984 fantasy-comedy film "All of Me."
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E.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ parody character ⓘ private detective ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Cheap Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Casablanca (parodied)
NERFINISHED
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The Maltese Falcon (parodied) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bumbling
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cynical ⓘ world-weary ⓘ |
| characterType | hard-boiled detective ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
comedy
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detective fiction ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
slapstick
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verbal comedy ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Humphrey Bogart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| modeledAfter |
Humphrey Bogart film noir characters
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Philip Marlowe NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Spade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | spoof of classic film noir sleuths ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Cheap Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | urban ⓘ |
| workGenreContext | film noir parody ⓘ |
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: Lou Peckinpaugh Description of subject: Lou Peckinpaugh is the bumbling, hard-boiled private detective protagonist in the 1978 film parody "The Cheap Detective," modeled after classic film noir sleuths like Humphrey Bogart’s characters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.