Bob Hyde
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Bob Hyde is a central character in the 1978 film "Coming Home," portrayed as a Marine officer whose life and relationships are transformed by the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Hyde canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757418 — 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: Bob Hyde Context triple: [Coming Home, featuresCharacter, Bob Hyde]
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A.
Phil Collinson
Phil Collinson is a British television producer best known for his work on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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B.
Billy Maharg
Billy Maharg was an American gambler and former baseball player best known for his role as a go-between in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
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C.
Tony Gibbs
Tony Gibbs is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Gibbs.
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D.
Phil May
Phil May is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an influential English caricaturist of the late 19th century and a British rock singer best known as the frontman of the band The Pretty Things.
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E.
Ken Parry
Ken Parry was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- 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: Bob Hyde Target entity description: Bob Hyde is a central character in the 1978 film "Coming Home," portrayed as a Marine officer whose life and relationships are transformed by the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
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A.
Phil Collinson
Phil Collinson is a British television producer best known for his work on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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B.
Billy Maharg
Billy Maharg was an American gambler and former baseball player best known for his role as a go-between in the 1919 Black Sox World Series fixing scandal.
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C.
Tony Gibbs
Tony Gibbs is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Gibbs.
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D.
Phil May
Phil May is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an influential English caricaturist of the late 19th century and a British rock singer best known as the frontman of the band The Pretty Things.
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E.
Ken Parry
Ken Parry was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coming Home ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
National Military Establishment
ⓘ
surface form:
United States military establishment
anti-war sentiment (indirectly, through narrative contrast) ⓘ |
| characterArc |
alienation after returning from war
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increasing emotional instability ⓘ transformation due to Vietnam War experience ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor |
Coming Home
ⓘ
surface form:
Coming Home (1978 film)
|
| emotion |
anger
ⓘ
confusion ⓘ despair ⓘ jealousy ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Coming Home
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surface form:
Coming Home (1978 film)
|
| genreOfWork | war drama film ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married at beginning of film ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
Marine officer affected by war
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central character ⓘ husband of Sally Hyde ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bruce Dern ⓘ |
| portrayedInYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Luke Martin
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Sally Hyde ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| spouse | Sally Hyde ⓘ |
| storyFunction |
contrast to paraplegic veteran Luke Martin
ⓘ
embodiment of traditional military values ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
infidelity
ⓘ
marital strain ⓘ masculinity and identity ⓘ psychological impact of war ⓘ |
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: Bob Hyde Description of subject: Bob Hyde is a central character in the 1978 film "Coming Home," portrayed as a Marine officer whose life and relationships are transformed by the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.