Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
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Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris is the seasoned former boxer and gym caretaker who narrates and mentors the main characters in the film "Million Dollar Baby."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris | 2 |
| Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7560746 — 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: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris Context triple: [Million Dollar Baby, character, Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris]
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A.
Eddie Garr
Eddie Garr was an American actor and comedian best known as the father of actress Teri Garr.
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B.
Eddie Stinson
Eddie Stinson was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer known for founding the Stinson Aircraft Company and producing popular light and commercial airplanes in the early 20th century.
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C.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
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D.
Eddie Laughton
Eddie Laughton was a British-born American character actor best known for his supporting roles in numerous Columbia Pictures comedies, including several Three Stooges shorts, during the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Eddie Kaspbrak
Eddie Kaspbrak is a hypochondriac yet brave member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his overbearing mother and eventual courage in confronting the entity terrorizing Derry.
- 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: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris Target entity description: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris is the seasoned former boxer and gym caretaker who narrates and mentors the main characters in the film "Million Dollar Baby."
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A.
Eddie Garr
Eddie Garr was an American actor and comedian best known as the father of actress Teri Garr.
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B.
Eddie Stinson
Eddie Stinson was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer known for founding the Stinson Aircraft Company and producing popular light and commercial airplanes in the early 20th century.
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C.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
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D.
Eddie Laughton
Eddie Laughton was a British-born American character actor best known for his supporting roles in numerous Columbia Pictures comedies, including several Three Stooges shorts, during the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Eddie Kaspbrak
Eddie Kaspbrak is a hypochondriac yet brave member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his overbearing mother and eventual courage in confronting the entity terrorizing Derry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedFor |
film Million Dollar Baby
ⓘ
linked to:
Million Dollar Baby
|
| appearsIn | Million Dollar Baby ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | boxing film ⓘ |
| backstory | former professional boxer ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Million Dollar Baby (2004 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Million Dollar Baby
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | F.X. Toole ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | sports drama ⓘ |
| friendOf | Frankie Dunn ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
Scrap
ⓘ
Scrap-Iron ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Frankie Dunn ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Maggie Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| mentorRole |
guides Maggie Fitzgerald's boxing career
ⓘ
provides emotional support to Frankie Dunn ⓘ |
| narratesTo | Frankie Dunn's estranged daughter ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| occupation |
boxer
ⓘ
gym caretaker ⓘ trainer ⓘ |
| physicalDisability | has impaired eye ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Morgan Freeman ⓘ |
| roleInWork | narrator of Million Dollar Baby ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| storyFunction | serves as moral center of the film ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hit Pit Gym ⓘ |
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: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris Description of subject: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris is the seasoned former boxer and gym caretaker who narrates and mentors the main characters in the film "Million Dollar Baby."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
linked to: Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris