Bobby Western
E1011906
Bobby Western is the introspective, haunted salvage diver who serves as the central protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel *The Passenger*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Western canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12942687 — 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: Bobby Western Context triple: [The Passenger, mainCharacter, Bobby Western]
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A.
Bobby Lewis
Bobby Lewis was an American rock and roll and R&B singer best known for his 1961 hit single "Tossin' and Turnin'."
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
Bobby Troup
Bobby Troup was an American jazz pianist, songwriter, and actor best known for penning classic tunes like "Route 66" and for his work in film and television.
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D.
Bobby Freeman
Bobby Freeman was an American rock and soul singer-songwriter best known for his 1958 hit single "Do You Wanna Dance?".
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E.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
- 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: Bobby Western Target entity description: Bobby Western is the introspective, haunted salvage diver who serves as the central protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel *The Passenger*.
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A.
Bobby Lewis
Bobby Lewis was an American rock and roll and R&B singer best known for his 1961 hit single "Tossin' and Turnin'."
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
Bobby Troup
Bobby Troup was an American jazz pianist, songwriter, and actor best known for penning classic tunes like "Route 66" and for his work in film and television.
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D.
Bobby Freeman
Bobby Freeman was an American rock and soul singer-songwriter best known for his 1958 hit single "Do You Wanna Dance?".
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E.
Bobby Elliott
Bobby Elliott is an English rock drummer best known for his long-time role in the influential band The Hollies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Stella Maris
ⓘ
The Passenger ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | late style of Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
ethics of science
ⓘ
existential dread ⓘ grief ⓘ guilt ⓘ incestuous desire ⓘ memory ⓘ nuclear weapons ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| centralCharacterOf | The Passenger ⓘ |
| creator | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| familyName | Western ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | physics ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Passenger ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bobby ⓘ |
| hasEducationIn | mathematics ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
guilt-ridden
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haunted ⓘ intelligent ⓘ introspective ⓘ melancholic ⓘ reclusive ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | viewpoint character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
becomes subject to government scrutiny and surveillance
ⓘ
investigates a mysterious submerged airplane in the Gulf of Mexico ⓘ |
| occupation |
former physicist
ⓘ
salvage diver ⓘ |
| parent | Leonard Western ⓘ |
| parentOccupation | physicist involved in the Manhattan Project ⓘ |
| psychologicalState | traumatized by Alicia Western’s death ⓘ |
| publisherOfWorkAppearedIn | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| relationshipToAliciaWestern | deeply devoted brother ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
New Orleans ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ |
| sibling | Alicia Western ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 2022 ⓘ |
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: Bobby Western Description of subject: Bobby Western is the introspective, haunted salvage diver who serves as the central protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s novel *The Passenger*.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister
subject linked to:
Alicia Western is Bobby Western’s sister