Gary Hobson
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Gary Hobson is the protagonist of the television series "Early Edition," a man who mysteriously receives tomorrow’s newspaper today and uses the foreknowledge to try to prevent disasters and help others.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Hobson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6153233 — 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: Gary Hobson Context triple: [Early Edition, mainCharacter, Gary Hobson]
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A.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
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B.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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C.
John Hodge
John Hodge is a Scottish screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on films such as "Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave."
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D.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
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E.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
- 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: Gary Hobson Target entity description: Gary Hobson is the protagonist of the television series "Early Edition," a man who mysteriously receives tomorrow’s newspaper today and uses the foreknowledge to try to prevent disasters and help others.
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A.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
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B.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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C.
John Hodge
John Hodge is a Scottish screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on films such as "Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave."
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D.
Hobart Brown
Hobart Brown was an American artist and sculptor best known as the eccentric founder of the human-powered art race tradition that became the Kinetic Grand Championship.
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E.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Early Edition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAnimal | orange tabby cat ⓘ |
| businessOwned | McGinty's bar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
reluctant hero ⓘ responsible ⓘ |
| closeColleague |
Chuck Fishman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marissa Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Bob Brush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ian Abrams NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Q. Page NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Early Edition, Season 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | stockbroker ⓘ |
| friend |
Chuck Fishman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marissa Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | fantasy drama ⓘ |
| goal |
help others
ⓘ
prevent disasters ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | mysterious cat ⓘ |
| languageOfSeries | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | altruistic ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| newspaperDeliveryFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| newspaperDeliveryTime | 6:30 a.m. ⓘ |
| newspaperTitle | Chicago Sun-Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAbility | foreknowledge of near-future events ⓘ |
| occupation |
bar owner
ⓘ
bartender ⓘ good Samaritan ⓘ stockbroker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kyle Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | balancing personal life with duty to help others ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Early Edition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receives | tomorrow's newspaper ⓘ |
| receivesNewspaperFrom | unknown origin ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| settingOfStories | Chicago, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceOfAbility | mysterious newspaper ⓘ |
| spouse | Marcia Hobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStories | late 1990s ⓘ |
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: Gary Hobson Description of subject: Gary Hobson is the protagonist of the television series "Early Edition," a man who mysteriously receives tomorrow’s newspaper today and uses the foreknowledge to try to prevent disasters and help others.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.