Bobby Walker
E452259
Bobby Walker is the central protagonist of the 2010 drama film "The Company Men," a successful corporate executive whose life is upended when he is laid off during a wave of corporate downsizing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Walker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4559763 — 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: Bobby Walker Context triple: [The Company Men, mainCharacter, Bobby Walker]
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A.
Billy Walker
Billy Walker is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at American University, overseeing the university’s NCAA Division I athletic programs.
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
Bobby Donnell
Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
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D.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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E.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Bobby Walker Target entity description: Bobby Walker is the central protagonist of the 2010 drama film "The Company Men," a successful corporate executive whose life is upended when he is laid off during a wave of corporate downsizing.
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A.
Billy Walker
Billy Walker is a collegiate sports administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at American University, overseeing the university’s NCAA Division I athletic programs.
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B.
Bobby Whitman
Bobby Whitman is a central character in the thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
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C.
Bobby Donnell
Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
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D.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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E.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affectedBy | corporate downsizing ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Company Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employmentStatusAtStart | employed ⓘ |
| employmentStatusLater | laid off ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacterArc |
adaptation to changed circumstances
ⓘ
loss of job and status ⓘ |
| medium | drama film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | corporate executive ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | narrative about corporate layoffs ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Company Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInStory |
corporate downsizing
ⓘ
economic insecurity ⓘ middle-class struggle ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2010 ⓘ |
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: Bobby Walker Description of subject: Bobby Walker is the central protagonist of the 2010 drama film "The Company Men," a successful corporate executive whose life is upended when he is laid off during a wave of corporate downsizing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.