Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald
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Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald is the independent, tough-minded truck driver who leads a rebellious convoy against corrupt law enforcement in the 1978 action film "Convoy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10477740 — 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: Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald Context triple: [Convoy (1978 film), character, Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald]
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A.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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B.
Kurt Buckman
Kurt Buckman is one of the three beleaguered friends in the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses," known for plotting to kill his abusive employer alongside his equally frustrated coworkers.
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C.
Steve Guppy
Steve Guppy is an English former professional footballer and winger best known for his spells with clubs such as Wycombe Wanderers and Leicester City, as well as earning caps for the England national team.
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D.
Spud Wilkinson
Spud Wilkinson is a person known primarily as a notable bearer of the surname Wilkinson.
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E.
Dick Hantak
Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
- 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: Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald Target entity description: Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald is the independent, tough-minded truck driver who leads a rebellious convoy against corrupt law enforcement in the 1978 action film "Convoy."
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A.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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B.
Kurt Buckman
Kurt Buckman is one of the three beleaguered friends in the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses," known for plotting to kill his abusive employer alongside his equally frustrated coworkers.
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C.
Steve Guppy
Steve Guppy is an English former professional footballer and winger best known for his spells with clubs such as Wycombe Wanderers and Leicester City, as well as earning caps for the England national team.
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D.
Spud Wilkinson
Spud Wilkinson is a person known primarily as a notable bearer of the surname Wilkinson.
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E.
Dick Hantak
Dick Hantak is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl XXVII.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ truck driver ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Convoy
ⓘ
linked to:
Convoy (1978 film)
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| associatedWith |
American trucking
ⓘ
CB radio culture ⓘ |
| basedOn |
song "Convoy"
ⓘ
linked to:
country song "Convoy"
|
| characterTrait |
independent
ⓘ
rebellious ⓘ tough-minded ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
1978 film Convoy
ⓘ
linked to:
Convoy (1978 film)
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | action film ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Martin Penwald ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | anti-hero ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leads | truck convoy ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nickname | Rubber Duck ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading a rebellious convoy against authorities ⓘ |
| occupation | truck driver ⓘ |
| opposes | corrupt law enforcement ⓘ |
| partOf |
Convoy franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Convoy (1978 film)
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| portrayedBy | Kris Kristofferson ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Convoy
ⓘ
linked to:
Convoy (1978 film)
|
| setInUniverseLocation |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| usesCallSign | Rubber Duck ⓘ |
| vehicleTypeDriven | truck ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1978 ⓘ |
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: Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald Description of subject: Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald is the independent, tough-minded truck driver who leads a rebellious convoy against corrupt law enforcement in the 1978 action film "Convoy."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.