Robert Angier (at various points in the film)
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Robert Angier is a driven and obsessive stage magician in "The Prestige" whose rivalry with Alfred Borden leads him to increasingly extreme and morally dubious lengths in pursuit of the perfect illusion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Angier (at various points in the film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10444879 — 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: Robert Angier (at various points in the film) Context triple: [Cutter, worksFor, Robert Angier (at various points in the film)]
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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B.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is a fictional British intelligence agent, popularized in a series of Cold War-era spy novels by Len Deighton and their film adaptations starring Michael Caine.
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C.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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D.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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E.
Will Robinson
Will Robinson is the young, resourceful son of the Robinson family and a central protagonist in the science fiction adventure series "Lost in Space."
- 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: Robert Angier (at various points in the film) Target entity description: Robert Angier is a driven and obsessive stage magician in "The Prestige" whose rivalry with Alfred Borden leads him to increasingly extreme and morally dubious lengths in pursuit of the perfect illusion.
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is a fictional British intelligence agent, popularized in a series of Cold War-era spy novels by Len Deighton and their film adaptations starring Michael Caine.
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B.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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C.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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D.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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E.
Will Robinson
Will Robinson is the young, resourceful son of the Robinson family and a central protagonist in the science fiction adventure series "Lost in Space."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ illusionist ⓘ stage magician ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Christopher Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Prestige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blames | Alfred Borden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfObsession | death of Julia McCullough ⓘ |
| characterArc | descends into moral darkness ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
driven ⓘ obsessive ⓘ vain ⓘ vengeful ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Cutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Christopher Priest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deceives |
Olivia Wenscombe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
audiences ⓘ police ⓘ |
| enemy | Alfred Borden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalFate | shot by Alfred Borden ⓘ |
| frames | Alfred Borden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friend | Cutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext | psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Lord Caldlow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Great Danton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lord Caldlow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hires | Nikola Tesla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kills | multiple clones of himself ⓘ |
| mentor | Milton the Magician NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodOfIllusion | self-duplication and drowning of duplicates ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
obsession with the perfect illusion
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professional rivalry ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
co-protagonist
ⓘ
foil to Alfred Borden ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
magician
ⓘ
stage performer ⓘ |
| performsTrick |
The Real Transported Man
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Transported Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hugh Jackman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | Borden's wrongful conviction ⓘ |
| riskLevel | willing to risk lives for his act ⓘ |
| rival | Alfred Borden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | late 19th-century London ⓘ |
| socialStatus | aristocrat ⓘ |
| spouse | Julia McCullough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | Tesla machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith | Julia McCullough 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: Robert Angier (at various points in the film) Description of subject: Robert Angier is a driven and obsessive stage magician in "The Prestige" whose rivalry with Alfred Borden leads him to increasingly extreme and morally dubious lengths in pursuit of the perfect illusion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.