Travis Bickle
E134596
Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Travis Bickle canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180698 — 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: Travis Bickle Context triple: [Taxi Driver, featuresCharacter, Travis Bickle]
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A.
Will McAvoy
Will McAvoy is the outspoken, idealistic cable news anchor at the center of Aaron Sorkin’s television series "The Newsroom."
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B.
Henry Hill
Henry Hill is a historically significant rise within Manassas National Battlefield Park that served as a key position during the First Battle of Bull Run in the American Civil War.
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C.
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas was a notorious Harlem drug kingpin in the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for building a heroin empire and later becoming a key government informant.
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D.
Pat Solitano
Pat Solitano is the emotionally volatile, bipolar former teacher struggling to rebuild his life and relationships in the film "Silver Linings Playbook."
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E.
John McClain
John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
- 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: Travis Bickle Target entity description: Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
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A.
Will McAvoy
Will McAvoy is the outspoken, idealistic cable news anchor at the center of Aaron Sorkin’s television series "The Newsroom."
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B.
Henry Hill
Henry Hill is a historically significant rise within Manassas National Battlefield Park that served as a key position during the First Battle of Bull Run in the American Civil War.
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C.
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas was a notorious Harlem drug kingpin in the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for building a heroin empire and later becoming a key government informant.
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D.
Pat Solitano
Pat Solitano is the emotionally volatile, bipolar former teacher struggling to rebuild his life and relationships in the film "Silver Linings Playbook."
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E.
John McClain
John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Travis Bickle Description of subject: Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.