Ricky Roma
E627630
Ricky Roma is a charismatic, manipulative top salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," known for his smooth-talking, predatory closing tactics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricky Roma canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889509 — 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: Ricky Roma Context triple: [Glengarry Glen Ross, character, Ricky Roma]
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A.
Ricky Boleto
Ricky Boleto is a British television presenter best known for his long-running role on the BBC children's news programme Newsround.
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B.
Ricky
Ricky is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Richard.
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C.
Rico Santo
Rico Santo is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Santo.
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D.
Ricky Verona
Ricky Verona is a ruthless crime boss and primary antagonist in the action film "Crank," known for poisoning the protagonist Chev Chelios.
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E.
Ricky Smith
Ricky Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing as a supporting figure connected to the Tenth Doctor’s adventures.
- 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: Ricky Roma Target entity description: Ricky Roma is a charismatic, manipulative top salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," known for his smooth-talking, predatory closing tactics.
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A.
Ricky Boleto
Ricky Boleto is a British television presenter best known for his long-running role on the BBC children's news programme Newsround.
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B.
Ricky
Ricky is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Richard.
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C.
Rico Santo
Rico Santo is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Santo.
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D.
Ricky Verona
Ricky Verona is a ruthless crime boss and primary antagonist in the action film "Crank," known for poisoning the protagonist Chev Chelios.
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E.
Ricky Smith
Ricky Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing as a supporting figure connected to the Tenth Doctor’s adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a film
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character in a play ⓘ fictional character ⓘ salesman ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Glengarry Glen Ross ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
feature film
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stage play ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Glengarry leads
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real estate scams ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
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manipulative ⓘ predatory ⓘ smooth-talking ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | David Mamet ⓘ |
| dialogueStyle |
fast-paced
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persuasive ⓘ profane ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of ruthless sales success ⓘ |
| notableFor |
closing high-pressure sales
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philosophical sales monologues ⓘ |
| occupation | real estate salesman ⓘ |
| relationship |
colleague of Dave Moss
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colleague of George Aaronow ⓘ colleague of John Williamson ⓘ colleague of Shelley Levene ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
antagonist
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top salesman ⓘ |
| setting | Chicago real estate office ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
capitalism
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masculinity ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ sales culture ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
deception
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emotional manipulation ⓘ high-pressure sales tactics ⓘ rapport-building ⓘ |
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: Ricky Roma Description of subject: Ricky Roma is a charismatic, manipulative top salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," known for his smooth-talking, predatory closing tactics.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.