Bob Wilton
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Bob Wilton is the fictional journalist protagonist of the satirical war comedy film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," whose investigation into a secret U.S. military psychic unit drives the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Wilton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394956 — 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 Wilton Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Bob Wilton]
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A.
David Puddy
David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
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B.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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C.
Paul Benedict
Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
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D.
Edward Shepherd
Edward Shepherd was an 18th-century British architect known for designing prominent London buildings, including the Covent Garden Theatre.
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E.
Burt Vickerman
Burt Vickerman is a tough but ultimately supportive gymnastics coach in the 2006 film "Stick It," known for pushing his athletes to challenge the sport’s rigid rules.
- 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 Wilton Target entity description: Bob Wilton is the fictional journalist protagonist of the satirical war comedy film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," whose investigation into a secret U.S. military psychic unit drives the story.
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A.
David Puddy
David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
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B.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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C.
Paul Benedict
Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
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D.
Edward Shepherd
Edward Shepherd was an 18th-century British architect known for designing prominent London buildings, including the Covent Garden Theatre.
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E.
Burt Vickerman
Burt Vickerman is a tough but ultimately supportive gymnastics coach in the 2006 film "Stick It," known for pushing his athletes to challenge the sport’s rigid rules.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| associatedWith | secret U.S. military psychic unit ⓘ |
| basedOn | journalist from Jon Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats (loosely) ⓘ |
| characterType | everyman journalist ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalUniverse |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| drivesPlotBy | investigating a secret U.S. military psychic unit ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Men Who Stare at Goats film universe
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| genreOfWork | satirical war comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
investigative reporter
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protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | journalist ⓘ |
| protagonistOf |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| roleIn |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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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 Wilton Description of subject: Bob Wilton is the fictional journalist protagonist of the satirical war comedy film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," whose investigation into a secret U.S. military psychic unit drives the story.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.