Rex Hanson
E396833
Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rex Hanson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3558129 — 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: Rex Hanson Context triple: [Horrible Bosses 2, character, Rex Hanson]
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Bryan DeWitt
Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
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D.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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E.
Roger D. Branigin
Roger D. Branigin was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 42nd governor of Indiana in the 1960s.
- 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: Rex Hanson Target entity description: Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Bryan DeWitt
Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
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D.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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E.
Roger D. Branigin
Roger D. Branigin was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 42nd governor of Indiana in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | villainous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Horrible Bosses 2 ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Horrible Bosses (film series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Horrible Bosses
|
| characterTrait |
arrogant
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Horrible Bosses 2 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | son of Bert Hanson ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | crime comedy ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction | obstacle to protagonists’ business plans ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | kidnapping scheme plotline ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| partOf |
Horrible Bosses franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Horrible Bosses
|
| portrayedBy | Chris Pine ⓘ |
| relative | Bert Hanson ⓘ |
| schemesAgainst |
Dale Arbus
ⓘ
Kurt Buckman ⓘ Nick Hendricks ⓘ |
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: Rex Hanson Description of subject: Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.