Jim Brockmire
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Jim Brockmire is a fictional, foul-mouthed, and emotionally troubled baseball announcer portrayed by Hank Azaria in the comedy series "Brockmire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Brockmire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13486644 — 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: Jim Brockmire Context triple: [Brockmire, mainCharacter, Jim Brockmire]
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A.
Tony Barbee
Tony Barbee is an American college basketball coach best known for his head coaching stints at UTEP and Auburn and for his long association with coach John Calipari as a player and assistant.
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B.
Kevin Hartman
Kevin Hartman is a retired American soccer goalkeeper renowned as one of Major League Soccer’s all-time leaders in appearances and saves.
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C.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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D.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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E.
Rob Burnett
Rob Burnett is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his longtime work with David Letterman, including serving as executive producer of the "Late Show with David Letterman."
- 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: Jim Brockmire Target entity description: Jim Brockmire is a fictional, foul-mouthed, and emotionally troubled baseball announcer portrayed by Hank Azaria in the comedy series "Brockmire."
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A.
Tony Barbee
Tony Barbee is an American college basketball coach best known for his head coaching stints at UTEP and Auburn and for his long association with coach John Calipari as a player and assistant.
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B.
Kevin Hartman
Kevin Hartman is a retired American soccer goalkeeper renowned as one of Major League Soccer’s all-time leaders in appearances and saves.
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C.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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D.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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E.
Rob Burnett
Rob Burnett is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his longtime work with David Letterman, including serving as executive producer of the "Late Show with David Letterman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| characterIn | Brockmire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Hank Azaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joel Church-Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | Funny or Die short ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Brockmire season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| hasAddiction |
alcohol
ⓘ
drugs ⓘ sex ⓘ |
| hasExSpouse | Lucy Brockmire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Charles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jules James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
dark comedy
ⓘ
raunchy humor ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterDevelopedInto | Brockmire television series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterWorksIn | minor league baseball broadcasting (fictional) ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| name | Jim Brockmire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
addiction and recovery
ⓘ
midlife crisis ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | IFC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
distinctive old-school baseball announcer voice
ⓘ
frequent profanity ⓘ public on-air meltdown backstory ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball announcer
ⓘ
sportscaster ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
emotionally troubled
ⓘ
foul-mouthed ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hank Azaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Morristown Frackers (fictional minor league team) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportCovered | baseball ⓘ |
| worksIn | Major League Baseball broadcasting (fictional) ⓘ |
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: Jim Brockmire Description of subject: Jim Brockmire is a fictional, foul-mouthed, and emotionally troubled baseball announcer portrayed by Hank Azaria in the comedy series "Brockmire."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.