Lucy Bobby
E376705
Lucy Bobby is a fictional character in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," known as the mother of NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucy Bobby canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3643706 — 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: Lucy Bobby Context triple: [Ricky Bobby, mother, Lucy Bobby]
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A.
Lucy Pearl
Lucy Pearl was a short-lived R&B/neo-soul supergroup formed in the late 1990s, known for blending smooth vocals with funk and hip-hop influences.
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B.
Lucy Burrows
Lucy Burrows is the tragic young heroine of D. W. Griffith’s silent film "Broken Blossoms," known for her innocence and suffering under an abusive father.
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C.
Lucy Marlow
Lucy Marlow was an American film and television actress of the 1950s, known for supporting roles in Hollywood productions including the musical drama "A Star Is Born."
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D.
Lucy Wilde
Lucy Wilde is a spirited and resourceful Anti-Villain League agent who becomes Gru’s partner and wife in the Despicable Me film series.
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E.
Lucy Simon
Lucy Simon was an American composer and singer best known for co-writing the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "The Secret Garden."
- 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: Lucy Bobby Target entity description: Lucy Bobby is a fictional character in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," known as the mother of NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby.
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A.
Lucy Pearl
Lucy Pearl was a short-lived R&B/neo-soul supergroup formed in the late 1990s, known for blending smooth vocals with funk and hip-hop influences.
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B.
Lucy Burrows
Lucy Burrows is the tragic young heroine of D. W. Griffith’s silent film "Broken Blossoms," known for her innocence and suffering under an abusive father.
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C.
Lucy Marlow
Lucy Marlow was an American film and television actress of the 1950s, known for supporting roles in Hollywood productions including the musical drama "A Star Is Born."
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D.
Lucy Wilde
Lucy Wilde is a spirited and resourceful Anti-Villain League agent who becomes Gru’s partner and wife in the Despicable Me film series.
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E.
Lucy Simon
Lucy Simon was an American composer and singer best known for co-writing the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "The Secret Garden."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy film
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sports comedy film ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
outspoken
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protective mother ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| createdFor | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
ex-wife of Reese Bobby
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grandmother of Texas Ranger Bobby ⓘ grandmother of Walker Bobby ⓘ mother of Ricky Bobby ⓘ mother-in-law of Carley Bobby ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
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surface form:
Talladega Nights universe
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| genreContext | NASCAR-themed comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Lucy Bobby self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
raising Ricky Bobby after Reese Bobby abandoned the family
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supporting Ricky Bobby’s NASCAR career ⓘ |
| occupation | waitress ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jane Lynch ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Lucy Bobby Description of subject: Lucy Bobby is a fictional character in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," known as the mother of NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.