Creighton Bernette
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Creighton Bernette is a fictional Tulane University professor and passionate New Orleans resident in the television series "Treme," known for his outspoken defense of the city after Hurricane Katrina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Creighton Bernette canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9578695 — 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: Creighton Bernette Context triple: [Treme, hasMainCharacter, Creighton Bernette]
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A.
Stone Crandall
Stone Crandall is a handsome, overconfident alpha-male character in the 2015 comedy film "Vacation," known for his outrageous antics and exaggerated masculinity.
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B.
Creston Clarke
Creston Clarke was an American stage and silent film actor active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Cully Holt
Cully Holt was an American bass singer best known as an original member of the influential vocal quartet The Jordanaires, who frequently performed and recorded with Elvis Presley.
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D.
Sprague Cleghorn
Sprague Cleghorn was a rugged early-20th-century Canadian ice hockey defenseman renowned for his physical play and success in the National Hockey League.
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E.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
- 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: Creighton Bernette Target entity description: Creighton Bernette is a fictional Tulane University professor and passionate New Orleans resident in the television series "Treme," known for his outspoken defense of the city after Hurricane Katrina.
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A.
Stone Crandall
Stone Crandall is a handsome, overconfident alpha-male character in the 2015 comedy film "Vacation," known for his outrageous antics and exaggerated masculinity.
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B.
Creston Clarke
Creston Clarke was an American stage and silent film actor active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Cully Holt
Cully Holt was an American bass singer best known as an original member of the influential vocal quartet The Jordanaires, who frequently performed and recorded with Elvis Presley.
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D.
Sprague Cleghorn
Sprague Cleghorn was a rugged early-20th-century Canadian ice hockey defenseman renowned for his physical play and success in the National Hockey League.
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E.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Treme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hurricane Katrina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans culture ⓘ Tulane University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
civic-minded
ⓘ
outspoken ⓘ passionate ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
David Simon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Overmyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Tulane University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | New Orleans, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Treme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
English literature
ⓘ
academia ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Treme season 1 ⓘ |
| genre | drama television series character ⓘ |
| hasTheme | urban recovery after natural disaster ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | outspoken defense of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of Treme ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans ⓘ |
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: Creighton Bernette Description of subject: Creighton Bernette is a fictional Tulane University professor and passionate New Orleans resident in the television series "Treme," known for his outspoken defense of the city after Hurricane Katrina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.