Raymond
E864503
Raymond is the volatile, abusive patriarch at the center of the British drama film "Nil by Mouth," whose destructive behavior drives the movie’s portrayal of family dysfunction and addiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raymond canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10469215 — 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: Raymond Context triple: [Nil by Mouth, leadCharacter, Raymond]
-
A.
Raymond
Raymond is the given first name of Teller, the silent half of the famous magician duo Penn & Teller.
-
B.
Raymond
Raymond is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
-
C.
Raymond
Raymond is an unincorporated community located in Coweta County, Georgia, United States.
-
D.
Raymond
Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
-
E.
Raymond
Raymond is a small town in southern Alberta, Canada, known for its agricultural community and early Latter-day Saint settlement history.
- 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: Raymond Target entity description: Raymond is the volatile, abusive patriarch at the center of the British drama film "Nil by Mouth," whose destructive behavior drives the movie’s portrayal of family dysfunction and addiction.
-
A.
Raymond
Raymond is a character connected to the violent criminal world surrounding Frank Booth in David Lynch’s film "Blue Velvet."
-
B.
Raymond
Raymond is a central character in the Gothic novel "The Monk," known for his romantic entanglements and morally complex actions that drive much of the plot.
-
C.
Raymond
Raymond is the given first name of Teller, the silent half of the famous magician duo Penn & Teller.
-
D.
Raymond
Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
-
E.
Raymond
Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Nil by Mouth ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
abusive
ⓘ
addicted to alcohol ⓘ controlling ⓘ violent ⓘ volatile ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gary Oldman ⓘ |
| drivesPlot |
depiction of domestic violence
ⓘ
family dysfunction ⓘ portrayal of addiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
antagonist within the family
ⓘ
central character ⓘ |
| partOf | British cinema depictions of working-class life ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ray Winstone ⓘ |
| relationship |
brother-in-law of Billy
ⓘ
father of his and Valerie’s children ⓘ husband of Valerie ⓘ |
| roleInWork | patriarch of a working-class family ⓘ |
| setting | South London ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
cycle of abuse
ⓘ
substance abuse ⓘ toxic masculinity ⓘ |
| workGenre | drama film ⓘ |
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: Raymond Description of subject: Raymond is the volatile, abusive patriarch at the center of the British drama film "Nil by Mouth," whose destructive behavior drives the movie’s portrayal of family dysfunction and addiction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.