Owen Milgrim
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Owen Milgrim is the mentally troubled, hallucination-prone protagonist of the Netflix miniseries "Maniac," whose participation in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial drives the show's surreal narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owen Milgrim canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333093 — 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: Owen Milgrim Context triple: [Maniac, mainCharacter, Owen Milgrim]
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A.
Owen Davis
Owen Davis was a prolific American playwright and screenwriter known for his popular melodramas and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1923.
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B.
Owen Moran
Owen Moran was a prominent early 20th-century English featherweight boxer known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
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C.
Oscar Fraley
Oscar Fraley was an American journalist and author best known for co-writing the book that inspired the television series and film "The Untouchables."
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D.
Owen Meredith
Owen Meredith was the pen name of British statesman and Victorian poet Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, known for his lyrical and romantic verse.
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E.
Gilmor Brown
Gilmor Brown was an American theater director and producer best known as the visionary founder and longtime guiding force of the Pasadena Playhouse.
- 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: Owen Milgrim Target entity description: Owen Milgrim is the mentally troubled, hallucination-prone protagonist of the Netflix miniseries "Maniac," whose participation in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial drives the show's surreal narrative.
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A.
Owen Davis
Owen Davis was a prolific American playwright and screenwriter known for his popular melodramas and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1923.
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B.
Owen Moran
Owen Moran was a prominent early 20th-century English featherweight boxer known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
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C.
Oscar Fraley
Oscar Fraley was an American journalist and author best known for co-writing the book that inspired the television series and film "The Untouchables."
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D.
Owen Meredith
Owen Meredith was the pen name of British statesman and Victorian poet Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, known for his lyrical and romantic verse.
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E.
Gilmor Brown
Gilmor Brown was an American theater director and producer best known as the visionary founder and longtime guiding force of the Pasadena Playhouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Maniac
ⓘ
Netflix miniseries Maniac ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
family pressure
ⓘ
identity ⓘ loneliness ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| coProtagonistWith | Annie Landsberg ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Maniac universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Maniac
|
| firstAppearance | Maniac episode 1 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
psychological dark comedy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMentalCondition | hallucinations ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
mentally troubled
ⓘ
socially isolated ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| network | Netflix ⓘ |
| occupation | test subject ⓘ |
| participatesIn | pharmaceutical drug trial ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jonah Hill ⓘ |
| relative |
Jed Milgrim
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Milgrim family ⓘ Porter Milgrim ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Maniac ⓘ |
| storyArc | undergoes experimental treatment to cure psychological problems ⓘ |
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: Owen Milgrim Description of subject: Owen Milgrim is the mentally troubled, hallucination-prone protagonist of the Netflix miniseries "Maniac," whose participation in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial drives the show's surreal narrative.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.