Ricky Baker
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Ricky Baker is the rebellious yet endearing foster child protagonist of the New Zealand adventure-comedy film "Hunt for the Wilderpeople."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ricky Baker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9729145 — 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 Baker Context triple: [Julian Dennison, portrayed, Ricky Baker]
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A.
Ricky Baker
Ricky Baker is a central character in the 1991 coming-of-age drama film "Boyz n the Hood," depicted as a promising young athlete whose life is tragically cut short amid the violence of South Central Los Angeles.
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B.
Ricky Kirshner
Ricky Kirshner is a prominent American television and live-event producer known for overseeing major broadcasts such as Super Bowl halftime shows and high-profile award ceremonies.
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C.
Eric Baker
Eric Baker was a British human rights activist best known as a co-founder of Amnesty International.
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D.
Ricky Phillips
Ricky Phillips is an American bassist and musician best known for his work with the rock band Styx and previously with groups like The Babys and Bad English.
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E.
Ricky Butler
Ricky Butler is the rebellious, heavy-metal-loving teenage neighbor who provides comic relief and a conspiratorial edge in the dark suburban comedy film "The 'Burbs."
- 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 Baker Target entity description: Ricky Baker is the rebellious yet endearing foster child protagonist of the New Zealand adventure-comedy film "Hunt for the Wilderpeople."
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A.
Ricky Baker
Ricky Baker is a central character in the 1991 coming-of-age drama film "Boyz n the Hood," depicted as a promising young athlete whose life is tragically cut short amid the violence of South Central Los Angeles.
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B.
Ricky Kirshner
Ricky Kirshner is a prominent American television and live-event producer known for overseeing major broadcasts such as Super Bowl halftime shows and high-profile award ceremonies.
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C.
Eric Baker
Eric Baker was a British human rights activist best known as a co-founder of Amnesty International.
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D.
Ricky Phillips
Ricky Phillips is an American bassist and musician best known for his work with the rock band Styx and previously with groups like The Babys and Bad English.
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E.
Ricky Butler
Ricky Butler is the rebellious, heavy-metal-loving teenage neighbor who provides comic relief and a conspiratorial edge in the dark suburban comedy film "The 'Burbs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| ageInStory | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hunt for the Wilderpeople ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the book Wild Pork and Watercress ⓘ |
| bookAuthorOfSource | Barry Crump ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
endearing
ⓘ
imaginative ⓘ loyal ⓘ mischievous ⓘ rebellious ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| createdBy | Taika Waititi ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | New Zealander ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | adventure comedy ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goesOn | wilderness adventure ⓘ |
| hasFosterStatus | foster child ⓘ |
| hasGuardian |
Bella Faulkner
ⓘ
Hec Faulkner ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | quasi-grandson of Hec Faulkner ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
belonging
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ family ⓘ found family ⓘ |
| isOnTheRunWith | Hec Faulkner ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | New Zealand countryside ⓘ |
| notableFor |
humorous haiku
ⓘ
love of hip-hop ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Julian Dennison ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Hunt for the Wilderpeople ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
New Zealand police
ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Police
child welfare services ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | New Zealand bush ⓘ |
| wears |
red jacket
ⓘ
snapback cap ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Baker Description of subject: Ricky Baker is the rebellious yet endearing foster child protagonist of the New Zealand adventure-comedy film "Hunt for the Wilderpeople."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.