Victor Maynard
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Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Victor Maynard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1108356 — 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: Victor Maynard Context triple: [Wild Target, character, Victor Maynard]
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A.
Victor Willis
Victor Willis is an American singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the original lead vocalist and co-writer for the disco group Village People.
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B.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
Victor Grinich
Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
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E.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Victor Maynard Target entity description: Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
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A.
Victor Willis
Victor Willis is an American singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the original lead vocalist and co-writer for the disco group Village People.
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B.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
Victor Grinich
Victor Grinich was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the Traitorous Eight who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
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E.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| age | aging ⓘ |
| alliesWith | Tony ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Wild Target ⓘ |
| characterArc |
develops emotional attachment to his target
ⓘ
questions his career as a hitman ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | film Wild Target (2010) ⓘ |
| entangledWith |
Rose
ⓘ
unpredictable young woman ⓘ |
| familyTradition | comes from a family of assassins ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Wild Target (2010 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Wild Target
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | British-French dark comedy crime film ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasProfessionStyle | orderly ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | professional life upended ⓘ |
| mother | Louisa Maynard ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableSkill |
marksmanship
ⓘ
meticulous planning ⓘ |
| occupation | hitman ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | fastidious ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Nighy ⓘ |
| protects | Rose ⓘ |
| targetOf | Ferguson ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Louisa Maynard ⓘ |
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: Victor Maynard Description of subject: Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.