Rendell Locke
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Rendell Locke is a central character in the "Locke & Key" comic and TV series, known as the late patriarch of the Locke family whose mysterious death and past with the magical keys drive much of the story’s events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rendell Locke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319463 — 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: Rendell Locke Context triple: [Locke & Key, mainCharacter, Rendell Locke]
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A.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
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B.
Roderick Jackson
Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
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C.
Remington Alexander Blackstock
Remington Alexander Blackstock is the son of American singer and television personality Kelly Clarkson and her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
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D.
Jonathan Hensleigh
Jonathan Hensleigh is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on action films such as "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "The Punisher."
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E.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
- 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: Rendell Locke Target entity description: Rendell Locke is a central character in the "Locke & Key" comic and TV series, known as the late patriarch of the Locke family whose mysterious death and past with the magical keys drive much of the story’s events.
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A.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
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B.
Roderick Jackson
Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
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C.
Remington Alexander Blackstock
Remington Alexander Blackstock is the son of American singer and television personality Kelly Clarkson and her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
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D.
Jonathan Hensleigh
Jonathan Hensleigh is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on action films such as "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "The Punisher."
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E.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Locke & Key character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| adaptationDifference | details of his past and death differ between comic and TV series ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Locke & Key
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Locke & Key (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Locke & Key (comic series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder ⓘ |
| child |
Bode Locke
NERFINISHED
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Kinsey Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Gabriel Rodríguez
NERFINISHED
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Joe Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Matheson High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Rendell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Ellie Whedon
NERFINISHED
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Lucas Caravaggio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriendGroup | the Keepers of the Keys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPastAssociationWith | magical keys of Keyhouse ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Duncan Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keptSecret | existence of the keys from his children ⓘ |
| killedBy | Sam Lesser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | the Locke family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | drives central mystery of Locke & Key ⓘ |
| occupation | high school guidance counselor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Aaron Ashmore
NERFINISHED
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Bill Heck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Keyhouse
NERFINISHED
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Matheson, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | patriarch of the Locke family ⓘ |
| spouse | Nina Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
| used |
Anywhere Key
NERFINISHED
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Echo Key NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghost Key NERFINISHED ⓘ Head Key ⓘ Identity Key ⓘ Mending Key NERFINISHED ⓘ Omega Key NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rendell Locke Description of subject: Rendell Locke is a central character in the "Locke & Key" comic and TV series, known as the late patriarch of the Locke family whose mysterious death and past with the magical keys drive much of the story’s events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.