Mark Ratner
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Mark Ratner is a shy, earnest high school student whose awkward attempts at romance form one of the central storylines in the teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Ratner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355337 — 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: Mark Ratner Context triple: [Fast Times at Ridgemont High, mainCharacter, Mark Ratner]
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A.
Howard Ratner
Howard Ratner is a fast-talking, compulsive New York City jeweler and gambling addict whose risky schemes drive the intense, chaotic plot of the film *Uncut Gems*.
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B.
Andrew Rabinovich
Andrew Rabinovich is a computer scientist and researcher known for his contributions to computer vision and deep learning, including influential work at Google.
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C.
Michael Markowitz
Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
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D.
David Rappaport
David Rappaport was a British actor best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films and television series during the late 20th century.
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E.
Robert Schwartzman
Robert Schwartzman is an American musician and filmmaker best known as the lead singer of the band Rooney and for his work as a director and actor.
- 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: Mark Ratner Target entity description: Mark Ratner is a shy, earnest high school student whose awkward attempts at romance form one of the central storylines in the teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
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A.
Howard Ratner
Howard Ratner is a fast-talking, compulsive New York City jeweler and gambling addict whose risky schemes drive the intense, chaotic plot of the film *Uncut Gems*.
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B.
Andrew Rabinovich
Andrew Rabinovich is a computer scientist and researcher known for his contributions to computer vision and deep learning, including influential work at Google.
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C.
Michael Markowitz
Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
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D.
David Rappaport
David Rappaport was a British actor best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films and television series during the late 20th century.
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E.
Robert Schwartzman
Robert Schwartzman is an American musician and filmmaker best known as the lead singer of the band Rooney and for his work as a director and actor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the book Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Cameron Crowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | teen comedy film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf | Mike Damone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | coming-of-age comedy ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Stacy Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScreenTimeImportance | major supporting character ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
romantic lead ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
awkward in romantic situations
ⓘ
socially inexperienced ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
earnest
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shy ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brian Backer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Ridgemont High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storylineFocus | awkward attempts at romance ⓘ |
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: Mark Ratner Description of subject: Mark Ratner is a shy, earnest high school student whose awkward attempts at romance form one of the central storylines in the teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.