Bob Wilson
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Bob Wilson is the anxious airline passenger in the classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who believes he sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Wilson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361577 — 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: Bob Wilson Context triple: [Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone 1963 episode), character, Bob Wilson]
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A.
Bob Wilson
Bob Wilson is a former Scottish goalkeeper who became a well-known British television sports presenter.
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B.
Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer is a Hall of Fame former Baltimore Orioles pitcher who later became a prominent television baseball commentator.
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C.
Luis Tiant
Luis Tiant is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his distinctive delivery and standout seasons in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Johnny Podres
Johnny Podres was an American left-handed pitcher best known for his clutch performances with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s, including a legendary complete-game shutout in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series.
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E.
Bob Feller
Bob Feller was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his blazing fastball and long career with the Cleveland Indians from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- 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: Bob Wilson Target entity description: Bob Wilson is the anxious airline passenger in the classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who believes he sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
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A.
Bob Wilson
Bob Wilson is a former Scottish goalkeeper who became a well-known British television sports presenter.
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B.
Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer is a Hall of Fame former Baltimore Orioles pitcher who later became a prominent television baseball commentator.
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C.
Luis Tiant
Luis Tiant is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his distinctive delivery and standout seasons in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Johnny Podres
Johnny Podres was an American left-handed pitcher best known for his clutch performances with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s, including a legendary complete-game shutout in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series.
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E.
Bob Feller
Bob Feller was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his blazing fastball and long career with the Cleveland Indians from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| airlineStatus | passenger ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Twilight Zone
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| appearsInEpisode | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
The Twilight Zone season 5
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes)
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| basedOn | character in the short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
nervous flier ⓘ paranoid ⓘ |
| conflictWith | airplane gremlin ⓘ |
| createdBy | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| episodeDirector | Richard Donner ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| franchiseLegacy | inspired later adaptations of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological horror
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Ruth Wilson ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| mentalHealthStatus | recently recovered from a nervous breakdown ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | airplane ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of the episode ⓘ |
| notableFor |
believing a gremlin is sabotaging the plane
ⓘ
seeing a gremlin on the wing of an airplane ⓘ |
| notableScene |
attempts to warn the crew about the gremlin
ⓘ
breaks a window with a gun to confront the gremlin ⓘ |
| occupation | salesman ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Twilight Zone (original series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| portrayedAs | only passenger who sees the gremlin ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William Shatner ⓘ |
| setting | commercial airliner in flight ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
fear of flying
ⓘ
stigma around mental illness ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| travelsWith | Ruth Wilson ⓘ |
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: Bob Wilson Description of subject: Bob Wilson is the anxious airline passenger in the classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who believes he sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet