Maynard Boyle
E1005362
Maynard Boyle is a ruthless and calculating bank executive antagonist in the crime film "Charley Varrick."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maynard Boyle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12631892 — 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: Maynard Boyle Context triple: [Charley Varrick, character, Maynard Boyle]
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A.
Rick Shaughnessy
Rick Shaughnessy is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the independent restaurant-centered crime drama film "Dinner Rush."
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B.
Terry Coombs
Terry Coombs is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the mysterious global phenomenon that causes women to fall into an otherworldly sleep.
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C.
Lyle Boyer
Lyle Boyer is an editor known for his work on the film "Bedlam."
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D.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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E.
Ed Shaughnessy
Ed Shaughnessy was an American jazz drummer best known for his long tenure with Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- 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: Maynard Boyle Target entity description: Maynard Boyle is a ruthless and calculating bank executive antagonist in the crime film "Charley Varrick."
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A.
Rick Shaughnessy
Rick Shaughnessy is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the independent restaurant-centered crime drama film "Dinner Rush."
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B.
Terry Coombs
Terry Coombs is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the mysterious global phenomenon that causes women to fall into an otherworldly sleep.
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C.
Lyle Boyer
Lyle Boyer is an editor known for his work on the film "Bedlam."
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D.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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E.
Ed Shaughnessy
Ed Shaughnessy was an American jazz drummer best known for his long tenure with Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Charley Varrick ⓘ |
| associatedWith | banking ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calculating
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ruthless ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Charley Varrick ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Charley Varrick ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | bank executive ⓘ |
| roleIn | Charley Varrick ⓘ |
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: Maynard Boyle Description of subject: Maynard Boyle is a ruthless and calculating bank executive antagonist in the crime film "Charley Varrick."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.