Mr. Kirby
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Mr. Kirby is a wealthy, conservative businessman and the disapproving father in the classic stage and film comedy "You Can't Take It with You."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Kirby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2479370 — 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: Mr. Kirby Context triple: [You Can't Take It with You, hasCharacter, Mr. Kirby]
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A.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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B.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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E.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
- 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: Mr. Kirby Target entity description: Mr. Kirby is a wealthy, conservative businessman and the disapproving father in the classic stage and film comedy "You Can't Take It with You."
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A.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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B.
Mr. McFeely
Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
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C.
Mr. Tappitt
Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
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D.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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E.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessman
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
You Can't Take It with You
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surface form:
You Can't Take It with You (1938 film)
You Can't Take It with You ⓘ
surface form:
You Can't Take It with You (play)
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| characterIn | You Can't Take It with You ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Martin Vanderhof
ⓘ
surface form:
Grandpa Vanderhof
|
| contrastsWith | Vanderhof family ⓘ |
| createdBy |
George S. Kaufman
ⓘ
Moss Hart ⓘ |
| familyRole | father ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
conservative
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disapproving ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| ideology | conservatism ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| partOf |
You Can't Take It with You
ⓘ
surface form:
You Can't Take It with You (franchise)
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| represents | conventional success and materialism ⓘ |
| roleInStory | disapproving father of Tony Kirby ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement | clash between materialism and nonconformity ⓘ |
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: Mr. Kirby Description of subject: Mr. Kirby is a wealthy, conservative businessman and the disapproving father in the classic stage and film comedy "You Can't Take It with You."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
You Can't Take It with You