Saul Tenser
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Saul Tenser is the performance-artist protagonist of David Cronenberg’s 2022 body-horror film "Crimes of the Future," known for publicly showcasing the surgical removal of his continually mutating internal organs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saul Tenser canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10201172 — 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: Saul Tenser Context triple: [Crimes of the Future (2022 film), hasTitleCharacter, Saul Tenser]
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A.
Qohen Leth
Qohen Leth is a reclusive, existentially tormented computer genius who serves as the protagonist of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian science fiction film "The Zero Theorem."
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B.
Ranon Ufgood
Ranon Ufgood is a character from the fantasy film "Willow," known as one of Willow Ufgood's children in the Nelwyn village.
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C.
Herb Tarlek
Herb Tarlek is a loud, tacky-suited, and comically inept advertising salesman character from the WKRP in Cincinnati television franchise.
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D.
Samuel Lord
Samuel Lord was a 19th-century English-born American merchant best known for establishing the iconic New York department store Lord & Taylor.
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E.
Saul Hudson
Saul Hudson, better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American rock guitarist famed for his work with Guns N' Roses and his iconic top hat and Les Paul guitar.
- 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: Saul Tenser Target entity description: Saul Tenser is the performance-artist protagonist of David Cronenberg’s 2022 body-horror film "Crimes of the Future," known for publicly showcasing the surgical removal of his continually mutating internal organs.
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A.
Qohen Leth
Qohen Leth is a reclusive, existentially tormented computer genius who serves as the protagonist of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian science fiction film "The Zero Theorem."
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B.
Ranon Ufgood
Ranon Ufgood is a character from the fantasy film "Willow," known as one of Willow Ufgood's children in the Nelwyn village.
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C.
Herb Tarlek
Herb Tarlek is a loud, tacky-suited, and comically inept advertising salesman character from the WKRP in Cincinnati television franchise.
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D.
Samuel Lord
Samuel Lord was a 19th-century English-born American merchant best known for establishing the iconic New York department store Lord & Taylor.
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E.
Saul Hudson
Saul Hudson, better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American rock guitarist famed for his work with Guns N' Roses and his iconic top hat and Les Paul guitar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Caprice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Crimes of the Future (2022 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyModificationType | surgical performance art ⓘ |
| createdBy | David Cronenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | David Cronenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exhibits |
continuous organ generation
ⓘ
reduced pain response ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
drama
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horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Crimes of the Future (2022 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | body horror ⓘ |
| hasAliasInPerformance | “Saul Tenser” (stage name implication within diegesis) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCondition | accelerated evolution syndrome ⓘ |
| interactsWith | National Organ Registry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | National Organ Registry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure in debates over human evolution ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | unspecified ⓘ |
| notableFor |
growing new internal organs
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public surgical performances ⓘ |
| occupation | performance artist ⓘ |
| performsWith | Caprice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Viggo Mortensen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCountryOfWork |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Crimes of the Future (2022 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Caprice (artistic partner and lover) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | near-future dystopian society ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
art and surgery
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evolution of the human body ⓘ surveillance of the body ⓘ |
| undergoes | repeated organ removal surgeries ⓘ |
| usesEquipment |
autopsy bed
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biomechanical eating chair ⓘ sarcophagus-like surgery pod ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2022 ⓘ |
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: Saul Tenser Description of subject: Saul Tenser is the performance-artist protagonist of David Cronenberg’s 2022 body-horror film "Crimes of the Future," known for publicly showcasing the surgical removal of his continually mutating internal organs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Crimes of the Future (2022 film)
subject surface form:
Crimes of the Future (2022 film)