Bobby Bowfinger
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Bobby Bowfinger is the desperate, low-budget movie producer and director played by Steve Martin in the 1999 comedy film "Bowfinger."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bobby Bowfinger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14709913 — 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 Bowfinger Context triple: [Bowfinger, characterRole, Bobby Bowfinger]
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A.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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B.
Handsome Bob
Handsome Bob is a stylish, soft-spoken gangster and member of One Two’s crew in Guy Ritchie’s crime film "RocknRolla."
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C.
John "Bluto" Blutarsky
John "Bluto" Blutarsky is the hard-partying, anarchic fraternity brother played by John Belushi in the comedy film *Animal House*.
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D.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
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E.
Marv Tarplin
Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
- 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 Bowfinger Target entity description: Bobby Bowfinger is the desperate, low-budget movie producer and director played by Steve Martin in the 1999 comedy film "Bowfinger."
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A.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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B.
Handsome Bob
Handsome Bob is a stylish, soft-spoken gangster and member of One Two’s crew in Guy Ritchie’s crime film "RocknRolla."
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C.
John "Bluto" Blutarsky
John "Bluto" Blutarsky is the hard-partying, anarchic fraternity brother played by John Belushi in the comedy film *Animal House*.
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D.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
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E.
Marv Tarplin
Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bowfinger