Phil Woodward
E452263
Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Woodward canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4559767 — 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: Phil Woodward Context triple: [The Company Men, mainCharacter, Phil Woodward]
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A.
Tony Eason
Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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B.
Leon Jaworski
Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
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C.
Del Harris
Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
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D.
Babe Siebert
Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Jim Hughson
Jim Hughson is a Canadian sportscaster best known as one of the premier play-by-play voices in NHL broadcasting.
- 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: Phil Woodward Target entity description: Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
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A.
Tony Eason
Tony Eason is a former American football quarterback best known for playing in the NFL during the 1980s, primarily with the New England Patriots.
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B.
Leon Jaworski
Leon Jaworski was a prominent American lawyer best known for serving as the Watergate special prosecutor who pursued the case against President Richard Nixon.
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C.
Del Harris
Del Harris is an American basketball coach best known for his long NBA coaching career, including head coaching stints with the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers.
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D.
Babe Siebert
Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Jim Hughson
Jim Hughson is a Canadian sportscaster best known as one of the premier play-by-play voices in NHL broadcasting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affectedBy |
corporate layoffs
ⓘ
economic recession ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Company Men ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
job loss
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struggle with self-worth after layoff ⓘ threat to social status ⓘ |
| characterArc | from successful executive to displaced worker ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | John Wells ⓘ |
| employerInStory |
GTX
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linked to:
GeForce GTX GPU
|
| firstAppearance |
The Company Men (2010 film)
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linked to:
The Company Men
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
career-oriented
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financially pressured ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| lifeStage | middle-aged ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | corporate executive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Chris Cooper ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
career crisis
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corporate downsizing ⓘ loss of identity ⓘ |
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: Phil Woodward Description of subject: Phil Woodward is a middle-aged executive in the film "The Company Men" whose career and identity are upended by corporate downsizing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.