Bobby Garfield
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Bobby Garfield is the young protagonist of Stephen King's novella "Hearts in Atlantis," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of friendship, loss, and the end of childhood innocence in 1960s America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby Garfield canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243259 — 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 Garfield Context triple: [Hearts in Atlantis, hasCharacter, Bobby Garfield]
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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.
Bobby Tudor
Bobby Tudor is a prominent energy investment banker and philanthropist known for his leadership in Houston’s business community and major support of Rice University athletics.
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C.
Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit track "Mrs. Officer," popularized by rapper Lil Wayne.
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D.
Bud Brigman
Bud Brigman is the deep-sea oil rig foreman and central protagonist in James Cameron's science fiction film "The Abyss."
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E.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- 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 Garfield Target entity description: Bobby Garfield is the young protagonist of Stephen King's novella "Hearts in Atlantis," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of friendship, loss, and the end of childhood innocence in 1960s America.
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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.
Bobby Tudor
Bobby Tudor is a prominent energy investment banker and philanthropist known for his leadership in Houston’s business community and major support of Rice University athletics.
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C.
Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit track "Mrs. Officer," popularized by rapper Lil Wayne.
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D.
Bud Brigman
Bud Brigman is the deep-sea oil rig foreman and central protagonist in James Cameron's science fiction film "The Abyss."
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E.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ageInStory | child ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hearts in Atlantis
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Hearts in Atlantis (novella) ⓘ
linked to:
Hearts in Atlantis
|
| associatedAuthor | Stephen King ⓘ |
| associatedWorkType | novella ⓘ |
| characterArc | coming-of-age ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Stephen King universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen King multiverse
|
| firstAppearance |
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
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linked to:
Hearts in Atlantis
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| firstPublicationAuthor | Stephen King ⓘ |
| genre | coming-of-age fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
loss of innocence
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memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | retrospective viewpoint ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | young protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| settingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
end of childhood innocence
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friendship ⓘ growing up in 1960s America ⓘ loss ⓘ |
| workGenreContext |
dark fantasy elements
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drama ⓘ |
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 Garfield Description of subject: Bobby Garfield is the young protagonist of Stephen King's novella "Hearts in Atlantis," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of friendship, loss, and the end of childhood innocence in 1960s America.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.