Walter Goodfellow
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Walter Goodfellow is the well-meaning but oblivious village vicar and central comic figure in the British dark comedy film "Keeping Mum."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Goodfellow canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10737293 — 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: Walter Goodfellow Context triple: [Keeping Mum, hasMainCharacter, Walter Goodfellow]
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A.
Walter Lamb
Walter Lamb is a notable individual whose surname, Lamb, is recognized in records of prominent bearers of the name.
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B.
Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke was a 19th-century British engineer and architect best known for designing prominent London landmarks and exhibition buildings, including the Royal Albert Hall.
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C.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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D.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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E.
Walter Brooke
Walter Brooke was an American character actor best remembered for his prolific film and television work from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his iconic brief role advising Dustin Hoffman's character about "plastics" in *The Graduate*.
- 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: Walter Goodfellow Target entity description: Walter Goodfellow is the well-meaning but oblivious village vicar and central comic figure in the British dark comedy film "Keeping Mum."
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A.
Walter Lamb
Walter Lamb is a notable individual whose surname, Lamb, is recognized in records of prominent bearers of the name.
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B.
Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke was a 19th-century British engineer and architect best known for designing prominent London landmarks and exhibition buildings, including the Royal Albert Hall.
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C.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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D.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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E.
Walter Brooke
Walter Brooke was an American character actor best remembered for his prolific film and television work from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his iconic brief role advising Dustin Hoffman's character about "plastics" in *The Graduate*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Keeping Mum ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
oblivious
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well-meaning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | "Keeping Mum" universe ⓘ |
| hasName | Walter Goodfellow ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
protagonist
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source of comedy ⓘ |
| occupation | vicar ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character in the film "Keeping Mum"
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comic figure in the film "Keeping Mum" ⓘ |
| setting | British village ⓘ |
| workGenre | dark comedy 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: Walter Goodfellow Description of subject: Walter Goodfellow is the well-meaning but oblivious village vicar and central comic figure in the British dark comedy film "Keeping Mum."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.