Dr. Robert Doback
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Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Robert Doback canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621349 — 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: Dr. Robert Doback Context triple: [Step Brothers, character, Dr. Robert Doback]
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A.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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B.
Dr. John Becker
Dr. John Becker is the cynical, misanthropic Bronx doctor portrayed by Ted Danson in the sitcom "Becker."
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C.
Paul A. Marks
Paul A. Marks was an influential American physician-scientist and cancer researcher who served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and helped shape modern cancer genetics and therapy.
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D.
Dr. William Block
Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
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E.
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post is a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert who has served as a professor and former dean of Yale Law School.
- 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: Dr. Robert Doback Target entity description: Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
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A.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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B.
Dr. John Becker
Dr. John Becker is the cynical, misanthropic Bronx doctor portrayed by Ted Danson in the sitcom "Becker."
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C.
Paul A. Marks
Paul A. Marks was an influential American physician-scientist and cancer researcher who served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and helped shape modern cancer genetics and therapy.
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D.
Dr. William Block
Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
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E.
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post is a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert who has served as a professor and former dean of Yale Law School.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Step Brothers ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Step Brothers ⓘ |
| familyName | Doback ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Dale Doback ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Step Brothers universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Step Brothers
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext |
buddy comedy
ⓘ
family comedy ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Dr. ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Robert Doback ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
long-suffering personality
ⓘ
patient demeanor ⓘ |
| occupation | medical doctor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Jenkins ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
father figure
ⓘ
stepfather ⓘ |
| spouseInFiction | Nancy Huff ⓘ |
| stepfatherOf | Brennan Huff ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2008 ⓘ |
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: Dr. Robert Doback Description of subject: Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.