Michael Bolton (character)
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Michael Bolton is a disgruntled software engineer in the cult comedy film "Office Space," known for his frustration with corporate drudgery and sharing a name with the famous singer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Bolton (character) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15355245 — 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: Michael Bolton (character) Context triple: [Office Space, mainCharacter, Michael Bolton (character)]
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A.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Mickey Dawson
Mickey Dawson is a fictional character who becomes the kidnapped wife at the center of the darkly comic crime plot in Elmore Leonard’s novel "The Switch" and its film adaptation.
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C.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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D.
Johnny Castle
Johnny Castle is the charismatic dance instructor and romantic lead portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."
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E.
Peter Paul Fix
Peter Paul Fix, better known as Paul Fix, was an American character actor recognized for his numerous supporting roles in Western films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- 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: Michael Bolton (character) Target entity description: Michael Bolton is a disgruntled software engineer in the cult comedy film "Office Space," known for his frustration with corporate drudgery and sharing a name with the famous singer.
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A.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter known for his powerful, soulful ballads and successful pop and adult contemporary hits, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Mickey Dawson
Mickey Dawson is a fictional character who becomes the kidnapped wife at the center of the darkly comic crime plot in Elmore Leonard’s novel "The Switch" and its film adaptation.
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C.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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D.
Johnny Castle
Johnny Castle is the charismatic dance instructor and romantic lead portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."
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E.
Peter Paul Fix
Peter Paul Fix, better known as Paul Fix, was an American character actor recognized for his numerous supporting roles in Western films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.