Doug Salter
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Doug Salter is the closeted middle-aged father in the groundbreaking 1972 TV movie "That Certain Summer," struggling to reconcile his homosexuality with his responsibilities to his teenage son.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doug Salter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7516951 — 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: Doug Salter Context triple: [That Certain Summer, mainCharacter, Doug Salter]
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A.
Chad Salter
Chad Salter is a musician best known for having been a member of the influential American avant-garde metal band Neurosis.
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B.
Steve Judd
Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
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C.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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D.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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E.
Eric Danchick
Eric Danchick is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Bound 2."
- 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: Doug Salter Target entity description: Doug Salter is the closeted middle-aged father in the groundbreaking 1972 TV movie "That Certain Summer," struggling to reconcile his homosexuality with his responsibilities to his teenage son.
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A.
Chad Salter
Chad Salter is a musician best known for having been a member of the influential American avant-garde metal band Neurosis.
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B.
Steve Judd
Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
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C.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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D.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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E.
Eric Danchick
Eric Danchick is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Bound 2."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| age | middle-aged ⓘ |
| appearsIn | That Certain Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | ABC Movie of the Week NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exSpouse | Cindy Salter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild | Nick Salter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRomanticPartner | Gary McClain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| medium | television film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first sympathetic gay father characters on American television ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| parentOf | Nick Salter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hal Holbrook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipToGaryMcClain | long-term same-sex partner ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
accepting his homosexuality
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coming out to his son ⓘ social stigma around homosexuality ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
LGBT representation on television
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coming out ⓘ father–son relationship ⓘ internalized homophobia ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | early 1970s ⓘ |
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: Doug Salter Description of subject: Doug Salter is the closeted middle-aged father in the groundbreaking 1972 TV movie "That Certain Summer," struggling to reconcile his homosexuality with his responsibilities to his teenage son.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.