Bo Hess
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Bo Hess is a young girl character from the science fiction thriller film "Signs," known for her peculiar habit of leaving glasses of water around the house, which later proves crucial in confronting the alien threat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bo Hess canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9117358 — 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: Bo Hess Context triple: [Signs, character, Bo Hess]
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A.
Carole Werner
Carole Werner is a character appearing in the 1965 romantic comedy film "What’s New Pussycat?".
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B.
Merritt Butrick
Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
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C.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
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D.
Marilyn Grimes
Marilyn Grimes is the middle-aged African American wife and mother at the center of Terry McMillan’s novel "The Interruption of Everything," whose journey explores identity, marriage, and personal reinvention.
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E.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
- 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: Bo Hess Target entity description: Bo Hess is a young girl character from the science fiction thriller film "Signs," known for her peculiar habit of leaving glasses of water around the house, which later proves crucial in confronting the alien threat.
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A.
Carole Werner
Carole Werner is a character appearing in the 1965 romantic comedy film "What’s New Pussycat?".
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B.
Merritt Butrick
Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
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C.
Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett is a Canadian businesswoman and home renovator best known as the wife of former Toronto mayor John Tory.
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D.
Marilyn Grimes
Marilyn Grimes is the middle-aged African American wife and mother at the center of Terry McMillan’s novel "The Interruption of Everything," whose journey explores identity, marriage, and personal reinvention.
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E.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageInStory | young girl ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Signs ⓘ |
| appearsInCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| appearsInGenre |
science fiction film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | glasses of water ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
alien invasion
ⓘ
faith ⓘ family ⓘ |
| characteristicHabit | leaving glasses of water around the house ⓘ |
| createdBy | M. Night Shyamalan ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Signs universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Signs
|
| hasFamilyName | Hess ⓘ |
| hasFather | Graham Hess ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Bo ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Morgan Hess ⓘ |
| hasUncle | Merrill Hess ⓘ |
| homeLocation | rural farm in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| livesWith |
Graham Hess
ⓘ
Merrill Hess ⓘ Morgan Hess ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | child whose water glasses become weapons against aliens ⓘ |
| plotSignificance | her scattered water glasses enable the defeat of an alien ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Abigail Breslin ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Bo Hess Description of subject: Bo Hess is a young girl character from the science fiction thriller film "Signs," known for her peculiar habit of leaving glasses of water around the house, which later proves crucial in confronting the alien threat.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.