The Spirit (character)
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The Spirit is a masked crime-fighting vigilante from Will Eisner's classic comic series, known for battling criminals in the gritty, noir-inspired Central City.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spirit | 6 |
| The Spirit franchise | 2 |
| The Spirit (character) canonical | 1 |
| The Spirit (comic series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9780229 — 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)
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Target entity: The Spirit (character) Context triple: [Silken Floss, appearsAlongside, The Spirit (character)]
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A.
Raven
Raven is the mascot representing Sequoia High School’s athletic teams and school spirit.
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B.
Raven
Raven is a powerful, empathic half-demon sorceress and core member of the Teen Titans, known for her dark, reserved personality and struggle to control her immense magical abilities.
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C.
Raven
Raven is a fictional character who appears in the comic series "Old Wounds," serving as a key figure in its narrative.
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D.
Raven
Raven is a central trickster-creator figure in Haida mythology, known for shaping the world and bringing light and knowledge to humanity.
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E.
Sentry
Sentry is the NATO reporting name for the E-3F airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft used for long-range radar surveillance and command and control.
- 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: The Spirit (character) Target entity description: The Spirit is a masked crime-fighting vigilante from Will Eisner's classic comic series, known for battling criminals in the gritty, noir-inspired Central City.
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A.
Raven
Raven is the mascot representing Sequoia High School’s athletic teams and school spirit.
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B.
Raven
Raven is a powerful, empathic half-demon sorceress and core member of the Teen Titans, known for her dark, reserved personality and struggle to control her immense magical abilities.
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C.
Raven
Raven is a fictional character who appears in the comic series "Old Wounds," serving as a key figure in its narrative.
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D.
Raven
Raven is a central trickster-creator figure in Haida mythology, known for shaping the world and bringing light and knowledge to humanity.
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E.
Sentry
Sentry is the NATO reporting name for the E-3F airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft used for long-range radar surveillance and command and control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book character
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fictional vigilante ⓘ superhero ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | The Spirit (2008 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| ally | Commissioner Dolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
crime fiction
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noir ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Central City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeElement |
blue suit
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domino mask ⓘ fedora ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Will Eisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy |
Sand Saref
NERFINISHED
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The Octopus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Spirit Section NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1940-06-02 ⓘ |
| fullName | Denny Colt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Ellen Dolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuperhumanPowers | false ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
exceptional stamina
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skilled detective ⓘ skilled hand-to-hand combatant ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cinematic storytelling in comics
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innovative page layouts ⓘ |
| notableStoryElement |
apparent death and return from the grave
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battles organized crime ⓘ morally ambiguous urban setting ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
noir morality
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urban crime ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| occupation |
crimefighter
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detective ⓘ |
| originalFormat | newspaper supplement ⓘ |
| originalMedium | comic strip insert ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gabriel Macht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher |
DC Comics
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Quality Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ Register and Tribune Syndicate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realName | Denny Colt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingStyle |
noir
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pulp ⓘ |
| status | alive ⓘ |
| wearsMask | true ⓘ |
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: The Spirit (character) Description of subject: The Spirit is a masked crime-fighting vigilante from Will Eisner's classic comic series, known for battling criminals in the gritty, noir-inspired Central City.
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