Danny Madigan
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Danny Madigan is the young, movie-obsessed boy who becomes the main sidekick and audience surrogate in the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Madigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9914101 — 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: Danny Madigan Context triple: [Last Action Hero, featuresCharacter, Danny Madigan]
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A.
George Denbrough
George Denbrough is a young boy from Stephen King's horror novel "It," whose tragic death at the hands of Pennywise the Clown drives much of the story's emotional and narrative conflict.
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B.
Quincy Magoo
Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
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C.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
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D.
Mickey Knox
Mickey Knox is the violent, media-sensationalized serial killer protagonist from the film "Natural Born Killers."
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E.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
- 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: Danny Madigan Target entity description: Danny Madigan is the young, movie-obsessed boy who becomes the main sidekick and audience surrogate in the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
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A.
George Denbrough
George Denbrough is a young boy from Stephen King's horror novel "It," whose tragic death at the hands of Pennywise the Clown drives much of the story's emotional and narrative conflict.
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B.
Quincy Magoo
Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
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C.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
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D.
Mickey Knox
Mickey Knox is the violent, media-sensationalized serial killer protagonist from the film "Natural Born Killers."
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E.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ageGroup | pre-teen ⓘ |
| appearsAlongsideActor | Arnold Schwarzenegger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Last Action Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | action comedy film ⓘ |
| breaksFourthWall | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Adam Leff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Arnott NERFINISHED ⓘ Shane Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Zak Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectedBy | John McTiernan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Last Action Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frequents | local movie theater ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreAwareness | action movie tropes ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Jack Slater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Danny Madigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | student ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Nick the projectionist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
brave
ⓘ
imaginative ⓘ movie-obsessed ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| helpsDefeat |
Benedict
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Ripper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Benedict
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Slater NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ripper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | Last Action Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| isFanOf | Jack Slater film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knowsHeIsInAFilmWorld | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| livesWith | his mother ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
child viewpoint character
ⓘ
comic relief ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Austin O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | film ⓘ |
| receivesObject | magic movie ticket ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
audience surrogate
ⓘ
main sidekick ⓘ |
| travelsTo | Jack Slater film universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| warnsCharacter | Jack Slater 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: Danny Madigan Description of subject: Danny Madigan is the young, movie-obsessed boy who becomes the main sidekick and audience surrogate in the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.