Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting)
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Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) is the New Hampshire lakeside vacation community depicted in the comedy film "What About Bob?" where Dr. Leo Marvin and his family spend their summer holiday.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303708 — 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: Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) Context triple: [Dr. Leo Marvin, hasVacationHomeLocation, Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting)]
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A.
Paris Hill, Maine
Paris Hill, Maine is a historic village known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and role as the original town center of Paris in Oxford County.
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B.
Gilead, Maine
Gilead, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine near the New Hampshire border, known for its location along the Androscoggin River and its access to outdoor recreation in the White Mountains region.
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C.
Lake Placid
Lake Placid is a village and nearby lake in northern New York best known as a major winter sports destination and host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
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D.
Crystal Lake (Maine)
Crystal Lake (Maine) is a freshwater lake in Harrison, Maine, known for recreational activities such as swimming, boating, and fishing.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a psychological horror television series inspired by the interconnected universe of Stephen King’s stories, released as an original program on Hulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) Target entity description: Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) is the New Hampshire lakeside vacation community depicted in the comedy film "What About Bob?" where Dr. Leo Marvin and his family spend their summer holiday.
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A.
Paris Hill, Maine
Paris Hill, Maine is a historic village known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and role as the original town center of Paris in Oxford County.
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B.
Gilead, Maine
Gilead, Maine is a small rural town in western Maine near the New Hampshire border, known for its location along the Androscoggin River and its access to outdoor recreation in the White Mountains region.
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C.
Lake Placid
Lake Placid is a village and nearby lake in northern New York best known as a major winter sports destination and host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
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D.
Crystal Lake (Maine)
Crystal Lake (Maine) is a freshwater lake in Harrison, Maine, known for recreational activities such as swimming, boating, and fishing.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a psychological horror television series inspired by the interconnected universe of Stephen King’s stories, released as an original program on Hulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
film setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Bob Wiley
ⓘ
Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ Marvin family ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lake Winnipesaukee ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | lakeside vacation community ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Lake Winnipesaukee (real lake)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Winnipesaukee
|
| genreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
boating
ⓘ
family recreation ⓘ vacationing ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
lake
ⓘ
small-town resort ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableScene |
Dr. Leo Marvin’s attempted peaceful vacation disrupted by Bob Wiley
ⓘ
comic boating and water-related sequences ⓘ family activities at the lakeside home of the Marvins ⓘ |
| introducedInWork | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | site of escalating comic conflict between Bob Wiley and Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | idyllic New England resort area ⓘ |
| primaryFunctionInWork | vacation setting for main characters ⓘ |
| settingFor | Marvin family summer home ⓘ |
| state | New Hampshire ⓘ |
| timeSetting | summer ⓘ |
| tone | light-hearted ⓘ |
| usedAs | summer holiday destination ⓘ |
| usedFor | contrast between professional life and vacation life of Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ |
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: Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) Description of subject: Lake Winnipesaukee (fictionalized setting) is the New Hampshire lakeside vacation community depicted in the comedy film "What About Bob?" where Dr. Leo Marvin and his family spend their summer holiday.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Leo Marvin in What About Bob?