Kirkman
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Kirkman is a surname most prominently associated with Robert Kirkman, the American comic book writer and creator of "The Walking Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirkman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6956009 — 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: Kirkman Context triple: [Robert Kirkman, familyName, Kirkman]
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A.
Kohan
Kohan is a surname most prominently associated with American television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, known for creating the series "Weeds" and "Orange Is the New Black."
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B.
Wick
Wick is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, known for its rural character and location between Bristol and Bath.
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C.
Wick
Wick is a small coastal town in the far north of Scotland, historically known as a fishing port and regional administrative center.
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D.
Reidy
Reidy is the surname of Affonso Eduardo Reidy, a prominent Brazilian modernist architect known for influential public housing and cultural projects in Rio de Janeiro.
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E.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
- 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: Kirkman Target entity description: Kirkman is a surname most prominently associated with Robert Kirkman, the American comic book writer and creator of "The Walking Dead."
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A.
Kohan
Kohan is a surname most prominently associated with American television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, known for creating the series "Weeds" and "Orange Is the New Black."
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B.
Wick
Wick is a small coastal town in the far north of Scotland, historically known as a fishing port and regional administrative center.
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C.
Wick
Wick is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, known for its rural character and location between Bristol and Bath.
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D.
Reidy
Reidy is the surname of Affonso Eduardo Reidy, a prominent Brazilian modernist architect known for influential public housing and cultural projects in Rio de Janeiro.
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E.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book series
ⓘ
comic book writer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| adaptedWorkToTelevision |
Invincible (animated series)
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linked to:
Invincible (TV series)
The Walking Dead ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Skybound Entertainment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdCharacter |
Invincible (Mark Grayson)
ⓘ
Omni-Man ⓘ
linked to:
Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man
Rick Grimes ⓘ |
| creator |
Robert Kirkman
ⓘ
Robert Kirkman ⓘ Robert Kirkman ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-11-30 ⓘ |
| employer | Image Comics ⓘ |
| familyName | Kirkman ⓘ |
| genre |
horror comics
ⓘ
science fiction comics ⓘ superhero comics ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Robert Kirkman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Invincible
ⓘ
Outcast ⓘ The Walking Dead ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Richmond, Kentucky, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Richmond, Kentucky
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| publisher | Image Comics ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| wroteFor | Marvel Comics ⓘ |
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: Kirkman Description of subject: Kirkman is a surname most prominently associated with Robert Kirkman, the American comic book writer and creator of "The Walking Dead."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
subject linked to:
Kirkman
subject linked to:
Penny Kirkman in Designated Survivor