Bobby Donnell
E336738
Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Donnell canonical | 8 |
| Bobby Donnell (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197341 — 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: Bobby Donnell Context triple: [The Practice, mainCharacter, Bobby Donnell]
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A.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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C.
Bobby Reed
Bobby Reed was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
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D.
Skip Donahue
Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
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E.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
- 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: Bobby Donnell Target entity description: Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
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A.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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C.
Bobby Reed
Bobby Reed was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
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D.
Skip Donahue
Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
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E.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Practice ⓘ |
| basedIn | Boston ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | David E. Kelley ⓘ |
| employerType | small law firm ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Practice ⓘ |
| franchise |
The Practice franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
The Practice
|
| genreOfWork | legal drama ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Bobby ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Donnell ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lawFirmLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| legalSystemContext | American legal system ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
defense attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dylan McDermott ⓘ |
| position | founding partner ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
civil litigation
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ |
| workFocus | criminal defense ⓘ |
| worksAt | Robert Donnell & Associates ⓘ |
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: Bobby Donnell Description of subject: Bobby Donnell is a fictional defense attorney and founding partner of a small Boston law firm in the legal drama series "The Practice."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jean Ward in The Practice
linked to: Bobby Donnell
subject linked to:
Judge Roberta Kittleson in The Practice