Eric Byer
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Eric Byer is a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official and primary antagonist in the film "The Bourne Legacy," overseeing covert operations and attempting to eliminate compromised agents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Byer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6791229 — 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: Eric Byer Context triple: [The Bourne Legacy, featuresCharacter, Eric Byer]
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A.
Michael Wincott
Michael Wincott is a Canadian character actor known for his distinctive raspy voice and memorable villainous roles in films such as The Crow, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Nope.
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B.
Keith Bunin
Keith Bunin is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work on stage and in film, including co-writing the Pixar animated feature "Onward."
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C.
Andrew VanWyngarden
Andrew VanWyngarden is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and co-founder of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
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D.
Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is a filmmaker and music video director known for creating visually distinctive videos for alternative and rock artists.
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E.
Kyle Bornheimer
Kyle Bornheimer is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television sitcoms and films, as well as voice work in animated features.
- 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: Eric Byer Target entity description: Eric Byer is a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official and primary antagonist in the film "The Bourne Legacy," overseeing covert operations and attempting to eliminate compromised agents.
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A.
Michael Wincott
Michael Wincott is a Canadian character actor known for his distinctive raspy voice and memorable villainous roles in films such as The Crow, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Nope.
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B.
Keith Bunin
Keith Bunin is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his work on stage and in film, including co-writing the Pixar animated feature "Onward."
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C.
Andrew VanWyngarden
Andrew VanWyngarden is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and co-founder of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
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D.
Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is a filmmaker and music video director known for creating visually distinctive videos for alternative and rock artists.
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E.
Kyle Bornheimer
Kyle Bornheimer is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television sitcoms and films, as well as voice work in animated features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States government ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Bourne Legacy ⓘ |
| associatedWith | intelligence community ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | The Bourne Legacy ⓘ |
| franchise | Bourne film series ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | action thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | opposes Aaron Cross ⓘ |
| objective | eliminate compromised agents ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. intelligence official ⓘ |
| oversees | covert operations ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Edward Norton ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | primary antagonist ⓘ |
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: Eric Byer Description of subject: Eric Byer is a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official and primary antagonist in the film "The Bourne Legacy," overseeing covert operations and attempting to eliminate compromised agents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.