Eddie
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Eddie is the volatile, obsessive rodeo cowboy protagonist of Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love," locked in a destructive, co-dependent relationship with May.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592771 — 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 Context triple: [Fool for Love, hasCharacter, Eddie]
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A.
Eddie
Eddie is a common diminutive form of the given name Edward, often used as a familiar or informal nickname.
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B.
Eddie
Eddie is the shipboard computer with a relentlessly cheerful personality from Douglas Adams' science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
Eddie
Eddie is a fictional character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Meeting Across the River,” portrayed as a small-time hustler hoping for one last chance at a big score.
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D.
Eddie
Eddie is a mischievous opossum character from the animated Ice Age film series, known for his comic antics alongside his brother Crash.
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E.
Eddie Kane
Eddie Kane was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- 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 Target entity description: Eddie is the volatile, obsessive rodeo cowboy protagonist of Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love," locked in a destructive, co-dependent relationship with May.
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A.
Eddie
Eddie is a common diminutive form of the given name Edward, often used as a familiar or informal nickname.
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B.
Eddie
Eddie is the shipboard computer with a relentlessly cheerful personality from Douglas Adams' science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
Eddie
Eddie is a mischievous opossum character from the animated Ice Age film series, known for his comic antics alongside his brother Crash.
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D.
Eddie
Eddie is a fictional character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Meeting Across the River,” portrayed as a small-time hustler hoping for one last chance at a big score.
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E.
Eddie Kane
Eddie Kane was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Fool for Love ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | contemporary American drama ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
co-dependency
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destructive love ⓘ emotional violence ⓘ family secrets ⓘ obsession ⓘ |
| characterInPlayBy | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Fool for Love ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationPortrayal |
Fool for Love (1985 film)
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linked to:
Fool for Love
|
| hasPersonalityTrait |
obsessive
ⓘ
volatile ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | May ⓘ |
| hasStageAdaptations | multiple productions ⓘ |
| isProtagonistInGenre | drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | rodeo cowboy ⓘ |
| partOf | American theatre ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Fool for Love ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithMay |
co-dependent relationship
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destructive relationship ⓘ romantic relationship ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | a motel room in the Mojave Desert ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Eddie is the volatile, obsessive rodeo cowboy protagonist of Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love," locked in a destructive, co-dependent relationship with May.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.