Bill Robinson
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Bill Robinson is the resourceful truck stop employee who leads the fight for survival against murderous machines in Stephen King’s 1986 film "Maximum Overdrive."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Robinson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8244356 — 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: Bill Robinson Context triple: [Maximum Overdrive, mainCharacter, Bill Robinson]
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A.
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was a pioneering African-American tap dancer and entertainer of the early 20th century, famed for his elegant style, staircase routines, and influential contributions to stage and film.
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B.
Milt Franklyn
Milt Franklyn was an American composer and arranger best known for scoring numerous Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Oscar_Charleston
Oscar Charleston was an American Negro league baseball center fielder and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest all-around players in baseball history.
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D.
Bert Lewis
Bert Lewis was an early American film composer best known for contributing music to Walt Disney’s pioneering 1928 animated short "Steamboat Willie."
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E.
Clarence Davis
Clarence Davis is a former American football running back best known for his standout performance with the Oakland Raiders in the 1970s, including a key role in their victory in Super Bowl XI.
- 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: Bill Robinson Target entity description: Bill Robinson is the resourceful truck stop employee who leads the fight for survival against murderous machines in Stephen King’s 1986 film "Maximum Overdrive."
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A.
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was a pioneering African-American tap dancer and entertainer of the early 20th century, famed for his elegant style, staircase routines, and influential contributions to stage and film.
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B.
Milt Franklyn
Milt Franklyn was an American composer and arranger best known for scoring numerous Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Oscar_Charleston
Oscar Charleston was an American Negro league baseball center fielder and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest all-around players in baseball history.
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D.
Bert Lewis
Bert Lewis was an early American film composer best known for contributing music to Walt Disney’s pioneering 1928 animated short "Steamboat Willie."
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E.
Clarence Davis
Clarence Davis is a former American football running back best known for his standout performance with the Oakland Raiders in the 1970s, including a key role in their victory in Super Bowl XI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | heroic ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Maximum Overdrive ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dixie Boy survivors
ⓘ
murderous trucks ⓘ |
| basedOn | characters from the short story "Trucks" by Stephen King ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| employer | Dixie Boy Truck Stop ⓘ |
| filmDebut | Maximum Overdrive ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Maximum Overdrive (1986 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maximum Overdrive
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
black comedy film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist of Maximum Overdrive ⓘ |
| notableAction |
develops plan to escape from the machines
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organizes survivors at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
courageous
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resourceful ⓘ |
| occupation | truck stop employee ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Emilio Estevez ⓘ |
| primaryAntagonists |
possessed vehicles
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sentient machines ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | leads the fight for survival against murderous machines ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | North Carolina ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1986 ⓘ |
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: Bill Robinson Description of subject: Bill Robinson is the resourceful truck stop employee who leads the fight for survival against murderous machines in Stephen King’s 1986 film "Maximum Overdrive."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.