Bob Bishop
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Bob Bishop is a fictional character portrayed by actor Stephen Tobolowsky, best known as a morally conflicted high-ranking member of the Company in the television series "Heroes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Bishop canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2758214 — 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 Bishop Context triple: [Stephen Tobolowsky, playedCharacter, Bob Bishop]
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A.
Don Burgess
Don Burgess is an American cinematographer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on the film "Forrest Gump" and his frequent collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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C.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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D.
John Hager
John Hager was an American Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and later held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Education and the Republican National Committee.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- 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 Bishop Target entity description: Bob Bishop is a fictional character portrayed by actor Stephen Tobolowsky, best known as a morally conflicted high-ranking member of the Company in the television series "Heroes."
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A.
Don Burgess
Don Burgess is an American cinematographer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on the film "Forrest Gump" and his frequent collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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C.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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D.
John Hager
John Hager was an American Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and later held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Education and the Republican National Committee.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation | the Company ⓘ |
| alignment | ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Heroes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor |
Heroes (television series)
ⓘ
surface form:
television series Heroes
|
| firstAppearanceInMedium | television ⓘ |
| genre | superhero television series character ⓘ |
| hasInternalConflict | yes ⓘ |
| hasName | Bob Bishop self-link ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalContext | yes ⓘ |
| isHuman | yes ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| morality | morally conflicted ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
member of secret organization
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | high-ranking member of the Company ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
American actor
ⓘ
Stephen Tobolowsky ⓘ |
| universe | Heroes universe ⓘ |
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 Bishop Description of subject: Bob Bishop is a fictional character portrayed by actor Stephen Tobolowsky, best known as a morally conflicted high-ranking member of the Company in the television series "Heroes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.