Joe Coughlin
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Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Coughlin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8640239 — 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: Joe Coughlin Context triple: [Live by Night, mainCharacter, Joe Coughlin]
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A.
Steve Spagnuolo
Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
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B.
Bill O'Brien
Bill O'Brien is a fictional political rival character in the television series "Veep," opposing protagonist Selina Meyer in her pursuit of power.
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C.
Mike Pettine
Mike Pettine is an American football coach best known for his defensive expertise in the NFL, including serving as a defensive coordinator and head coach for multiple teams.
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D.
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
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E.
John Tusa
John Tusa is a British arts administrator, broadcaster, and former managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Centre.
- 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: Joe Coughlin Target entity description: Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
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A.
Steve Spagnuolo
Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
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B.
Bill O'Brien
Bill O'Brien is a fictional political rival character in the television series "Veep," opposing protagonist Selina Meyer in her pursuit of power.
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C.
Mike Pettine
Mike Pettine is an American football coach best known for his defensive expertise in the NFL, including serving as a defensive coordinator and head coach for multiple teams.
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D.
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
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E.
John Tusa
John Tusa is a British arts administrator, broadcaster, and former managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Centre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Live by Night (2016 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Live by Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Coughlin series ⓘ |
| basedInWork | novel ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalActivity | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Dennis Lehane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother of Danny Coughlin
ⓘ
son of Thomas Coughlin ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalRole | protagonist of Live by Night ⓘ |
| genre | crime fiction character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Dennis Lehane universe ⓘ |
| militaryService | World War I veteran ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | antihero ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableActivity |
bootlegging
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ |
| occupation |
gangster
ⓘ
outlaw ⓘ rum-runner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ben Affleck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Prohibition era 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: Joe Coughlin Description of subject: Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.