Dennis Nedry
E895524
Dennis Nedry is the disgruntled computer programmer and saboteur in Jurassic Park who disables the park’s security systems to steal dinosaur embryos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Nedry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10944038 — 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: Dennis Nedry Context triple: [Wayne Knight, characterPlayed, Dennis Nedry]
-
A.
Miles Dyson
Miles Dyson is a pivotal fictional scientist in the Terminator franchise whose work on advanced microprocessors leads to the creation of Skynet and the apocalyptic future central to the series' plot.
-
B.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
-
C.
Dexter Pratt
Dexter Pratt was a 19th-century New England resident best known as the real-life blacksmith who inspired the character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
-
D.
Chuck Baxter
Chuck Baxter is the amiable but morally conflicted insurance clerk at the center of the musical "Promises, Promises," whose romantic entanglements and ethical dilemmas drive the story.
-
E.
R.J. MacReady
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
- 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: Dennis Nedry Target entity description: Dennis Nedry is the disgruntled computer programmer and saboteur in Jurassic Park who disables the park’s security systems to steal dinosaur embryos.
-
A.
Miles Dyson
Miles Dyson is a pivotal fictional scientist in the Terminator franchise whose work on advanced microprocessors leads to the creation of Skynet and the apocalyptic future central to the series' plot.
-
B.
Seth Brundle
Seth Brundle is the brilliant but doomed scientist who transforms into a human-fly hybrid in David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror film "The Fly."
-
C.
Dexter Pratt
Dexter Pratt was a 19th-century New England resident best known as the real-life blacksmith who inspired the character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
-
D.
Chuck Baxter
Chuck Baxter is the amiable but morally conflicted insurance clerk at the center of the musical "Promises, Promises," whose romantic entanglements and ethical dilemmas drive the story.
-
E.
R.J. MacReady
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ saboteur ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jurassic Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jurassic Park (1993 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jurassic Park (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| betrays |
InGen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfEvent |
Jurassic Park security failure
ⓘ
park-wide power outage affecting security fences ⓘ release of dinosaurs from containment ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
disgruntled
ⓘ
greedy ⓘ sloppy ⓘ technically skilled ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | John Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conspiresWith | Lewis Dodgson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Michael Crichton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed by a Dilophosaurus ⓘ |
| deathLocation | Jurassic Park island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathSceneFeature | Dilophosaurus spits venom in his face ⓘ |
| employer | InGen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| failsTo | successfully deliver stolen embryos ⓘ |
| franchise | Jurassic Park franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Jurassic Park (1990 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | Jurassic Park (1993 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motivation |
financial gain
ⓘ
resentment over underpayment ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | primary human antagonist in Jurassic Park film ⓘ |
| notableAction |
attempts to steal dinosaur embryos
ⓘ
disables Jurassic Park security systems ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Ah ah ah, you didn’t say the magic word! ⓘ |
| occupation | computer programmer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Wayne Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programs | Jurassic Park control systems ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
disabling the park’s main security grid
ⓘ
shutting down the park’s computer systems ⓘ turning off electric fences ⓘ |
| role | lead computer programmer of Jurassic Park ⓘ |
| securityRole | controls access to park systems ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| stealsFrom | InGen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyOutcome | dies before completing the theft ⓘ |
| targetOfTheft | dinosaur embryos ⓘ |
| transportPlan | planned to deliver embryos to a boat off the island ⓘ |
| usesObject | Barbasol shaving cream can with hidden embryo storage ⓘ |
| worksAt | Jurassic Park 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: Dennis Nedry Description of subject: Dennis Nedry is the disgruntled computer programmer and saboteur in Jurassic Park who disables the park’s security systems to steal dinosaur embryos.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.