C. C. Baxter
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C. C. Baxter is the ambitious but lonely insurance clerk at the center of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment," whose moral awakening unfolds as he lends his apartment to philandering executives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. C. Baxter canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2415103 — 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: C. C. Baxter Context triple: [The Apartment, mainCharacter, C. C. Baxter]
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A.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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B.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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C.
Robert G. Bratcher
Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
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D.
Frank Baker
Frank Baker was an American Hall of Fame third baseman, nicknamed "Home Run" Baker, best known as a power-hitting star for the early 20th-century Philadelphia Athletics.
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E.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
- 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: C. C. Baxter Target entity description: C. C. Baxter is the ambitious but lonely insurance clerk at the center of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment," whose moral awakening unfolds as he lends his apartment to philandering executives.
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A.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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B.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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C.
Robert G. Bratcher
Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
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D.
Frank Baker
Frank Baker was an American Hall of Fame third baseman, nicknamed "Home Run" Baker, best known as a power-hitting star for the early 20th-century Philadelphia Athletics.
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E.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| apartmentLocation | Upper West Side ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Apartment ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
corporate exploitation
ⓘ
loneliness in the big city ⓘ personal integrity ⓘ |
| characterArc | from compliant employee to morally independent individual ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
kind-hearted ⓘ lonely ⓘ naive ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
I. A. L. Diamond ⓘ |
| employer |
Consolidated Life
ⓘ
linked to:
Consolidated Life Insurance Company
|
| filmReleaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| fullNameInFilm | Calvin Clifford Baxter ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | romantic comedy-drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Fran Kubelik ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| moralConflict | using his apartment to facilitate extramarital affairs ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | lends his apartment to company executives for their affairs ⓘ |
| notableProp | key to his apartment ⓘ |
| notableScene | spaghetti with a tennis racket ⓘ |
| occupation | insurance clerk ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Lemmon ⓘ |
| promotionGoal | climb the corporate ladder ⓘ |
| residence |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| scriptedBy |
Billy Wilder
ⓘ
I. A. L. Diamond ⓘ |
| turningPoint | refuses to let his apartment be used for affairs ⓘ |
| undergoes | moral awakening ⓘ |
| worksFor | Jeff Sheldrake ⓘ |
| worksInIndustry | insurance industry ⓘ |
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: C. C. Baxter Description of subject: C. C. Baxter is the ambitious but lonely insurance clerk at the center of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment," whose moral awakening unfolds as he lends his apartment to philandering executives.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.