Bad Blake
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Bad Blake is the hard-living, down-on-his-luck country singer portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the film "Crazy Heart."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Blake canonical | 8 |
| Bad Blake (novel character) | 1 |
| Evil Bratt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10514882 — 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: Bad Blake Context triple: [The Weary Kind, performedByCharacter, Bad Blake]
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A.
Bad Benson
Bad Benson is a 1974 jazz album by guitarist George Benson, noted for its smooth, melodic style and fusion of jazz with pop and R&B influences.
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B.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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C.
Benny Profane
Benny Profane is a hapless, drifting ex-sailor and antihero in Thomas Pynchon's fiction, emblematic of postwar aimlessness and absurdity.
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D.
Scott Evil
Scott Evil is the awkward, resentful son of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers film series, often serving as a comedic foil to his over-the-top supervillain father.
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E.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
- 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: Bad Blake Target entity description: Bad Blake is the hard-living, down-on-his-luck country singer portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the film "Crazy Heart."
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A.
Bad Benson
Bad Benson is a 1974 jazz album by guitarist George Benson, noted for its smooth, melodic style and fusion of jazz with pop and R&B influences.
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B.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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C.
Benny Profane
Benny Profane is a hapless, drifting ex-sailor and antihero in Thomas Pynchon's fiction, emblematic of postwar aimlessness and absurdity.
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D.
Scott Evil
Scott Evil is the awkward, resentful son of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers film series, often serving as a comedic foil to his over-the-top supervillain father.
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E.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country singer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| caresFor | Buddy (Jean Craddock’s son) ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmProduction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Scott Cooper ⓘ |
| experiences |
career redemption arc
ⓘ
personal redemption arc ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Crazy Heart (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Crazy Heart
|
| filmGenre |
drama
ⓘ
music drama ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| formerBandmateOf | Tommy Sweet ⓘ |
| formsRelationshipWith | Jean Craddock ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | country music ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | alcohol ⓘ |
| hasMaritalHistory | multiple failed marriages ⓘ |
| hasPastRelationshipWith | Tommy Sweet ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
down-on-his-luck
ⓘ
hard-living ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive voice
ⓘ
songwriting talent ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Tommy Sweet ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| novelBy | Thomas Cobb ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performsAt |
bowling alleys
ⓘ
small bars ⓘ |
| performsSong | The Weary Kind ⓘ |
| portrayalAwardRecognition |
Academy Award for Best Actor (Jeff Bridges)
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Jeff Bridges) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jeff Bridges ⓘ |
| primaryInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| professionStatus | faded star ⓘ |
| screenTimeContext | main protagonist of Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
alcoholism
ⓘ
career decline ⓘ |
| themeAssociatedWith |
addiction
ⓘ
aging ⓘ love and responsibility ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
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: Bad Blake Description of subject: Bad Blake is the hard-living, down-on-his-luck country singer portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the film "Crazy Heart."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bad Blake
linked to: Bad Blake