Dante Hicks
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Dante Hicks is a beleaguered convenience store clerk and the central everyman protagonist of Kevin Smith’s film "Clerks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dante Hicks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11583995 — 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: Dante Hicks Context triple: [Clerks, mainCharacter, Dante Hicks]
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A.
Ezekiel Cobb
Ezekiel Cobb is the naive small-town protagonist of the 1912 novel "The Cat's-Paw," whose unwitting involvement in big-city politics drives the story's satirical plot.
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B.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
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C.
Barrett Deems
Barrett Deems was an American jazz drummer best known for his high-energy playing and for performing with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars in the 1950s.
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D.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
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E.
Jack Deerson
Jack Deerson is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
- 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: Dante Hicks Target entity description: Dante Hicks is a beleaguered convenience store clerk and the central everyman protagonist of Kevin Smith’s film "Clerks."
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A.
Ezekiel Cobb
Ezekiel Cobb is the naive small-town protagonist of the 1912 novel "The Cat's-Paw," whose unwitting involvement in big-city politics drives the story's satirical plot.
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B.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
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C.
Barrett Deems
Barrett Deems was an American jazz drummer best known for his high-energy playing and for performing with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars in the 1950s.
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D.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
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E.
Jack Deerson
Jack Deerson is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kevin Smith character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Clerks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clerks II NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks III NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks: Music from the Motion Picture (as a character in associated media) NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks: The Animated Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks: The Lost Scene (animated short) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (cameo/appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silent Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInUniverse | View Askewniverse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchphrase | "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" ⓘ |
| characterArc | moves from stagnation toward commitment and responsibility across Clerks films ⓘ |
| closeFriend | Randal Graves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | film "Clerks" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Kevin Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Clerks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | View Askewniverse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasBoss | Quick Stop owner (off-screen employer) ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Emma Bunting (fiancée in Clerks II) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
animated television series
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
everyman protagonist
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | convenience store clerk ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
beleaguered
ⓘ
everyman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Brian O'Halloran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brian O'Halloran (voice in Clerks: The Animated Series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| romanticRelationship |
Caitlin Bree
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Veronica Loughran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Leonardo, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| theme |
frustration with dead-end jobs
ⓘ
reluctance to accept adulthood responsibilities ⓘ |
| workplaceRelationship | co-worker of Randal Graves ⓘ |
| worksAt | Quick Stop Groceries 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: Dante Hicks Description of subject: Dante Hicks is a beleaguered convenience store clerk and the central everyman protagonist of Kevin Smith’s film "Clerks."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.