Joey Boca
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Joey Boca is the philandering pizza parlor owner whose obliviousness and infidelities drive the darkly comic murder plots in the film "I Love You to Death."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joey Boca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5246169 — 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: Joey Boca Context triple: [I Love You to Death, mainCharacter, Joey Boca]
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A.
Joey Marin
Joey Marin is the son of American comedian and actor Cheech Marin, best known as half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong.
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B.
Joey Ambrose
Joey Ambrose was an American saxophonist best known for his work with the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets during the 1950s.
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C.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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D.
Bobby Valentino
Bobby Valentino is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for smooth, melodic vocals on early-2000s hits like "Slow Down" and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Joey Curtis
Joey Curtis is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed romantic drama film "Blue Valentine."
- 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: Joey Boca Target entity description: Joey Boca is the philandering pizza parlor owner whose obliviousness and infidelities drive the darkly comic murder plots in the film "I Love You to Death."
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A.
Joey Marin
Joey Marin is the son of American comedian and actor Cheech Marin, best known as half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong.
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B.
Joey Ambrose
Joey Ambrose was an American saxophonist best known for his work with the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets during the 1950s.
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C.
Joey DeLuca
Joey DeLuca is a fictional character from the short-lived 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
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D.
Bobby Valentino
Bobby Valentino is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for smooth, melodic vocals on early-2000s hits like "Slow Down" and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Joey Curtis
Joey Curtis is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed romantic drama film "Blue Valentine."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | I Love You to Death ⓘ |
| appearsInYearOfWork | 1990 ⓘ |
| basedOn | real-life case of Tony Toto (loosely) ⓘ |
| causeOfConflict |
infidelities
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marital conflict ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
oblivious
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philandering ⓘ |
| drivesPlotElement | murder plots ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | dark comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian-American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableAction |
cheats on his wife repeatedly
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remains unaware of attempts on his life ⓘ |
| occupation |
pizza parlor owner
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restaurateur ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Kline ⓘ |
| primaryRelationship | husband of Rosalie Boca ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Tacoma, Washington (fictionalized setting)
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linked to:
Tacoma, Washington
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| spouse | Rosalie Boca ⓘ |
| toneOfStoryInvolving | darkly comic ⓘ |
| workTitle | I Love You to Death ⓘ |
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: Joey Boca Description of subject: Joey Boca is the philandering pizza parlor owner whose obliviousness and infidelities drive the darkly comic murder plots in the film "I Love You to Death."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.