Dr. Leo Marvin
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Dr. Leo Marvin is a high-strung, egotistical psychiatrist whose life unravels when an overly dependent patient invades his family vacation in the comedy film "What About Bob?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Leo Marvin canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3681428 — 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: Dr. Leo Marvin Context triple: [What About Bob?, mainCharacter, Dr. Leo Marvin]
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A.
Marvin Andrews
Marvin Andrews is a Trinidad and Tobago former central defender best known for his powerful, committed performances in Scottish football, particularly with clubs like Livingston and Rangers.
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B.
Larry Harvey
Larry Harvey is a fictional character from the television series "American Horror Story," known for his sinister and violent role in the first season, "Murder House."
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C.
Darold Knowles
Darold Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics' early-1970s championship teams and for pitching in all seven games of the 1973 World Series.
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D.
Lester Germer
Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
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E.
Jerry Lester
Jerry Lester was an American comedian and television personality best known as an early late-night TV pioneer in the 1950s.
- 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: Dr. Leo Marvin Target entity description: Dr. Leo Marvin is a high-strung, egotistical psychiatrist whose life unravels when an overly dependent patient invades his family vacation in the comedy film "What About Bob?".
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A.
Marvin Andrews
Marvin Andrews is a Trinidad and Tobago former central defender best known for his powerful, committed performances in Scottish football, particularly with clubs like Livingston and Rangers.
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B.
Larry Harvey
Larry Harvey is a fictional character from the television series "American Horror Story," known for his sinister and violent role in the first season, "Murder House."
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C.
Darold Knowles
Darold Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics' early-1970s championship teams and for pitching in all seven games of the 1973 World Series.
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D.
Lester Germer
Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
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E.
Jerry Lester
Jerry Lester was an American comedian and television personality best known as an early late-night TV pioneer in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
psychiatrist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| appearsInSubgenre | black comedy ⓘ |
| caresAbout |
media recognition
ⓘ
professional reputation ⓘ |
| comicFunction | source of situational and character-based humor ⓘ |
| conflictType | patient invading family vacation ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | screenwriters Tom Schulman and Alvin Sargent ⓘ |
| createdFor | film ⓘ |
| experiences |
increasing paranoia about Bob Wiley
ⓘ
professional jealousy of Bob Wiley’s popularity ⓘ |
| familyName | Marvin ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
psychotherapy
ⓘ
self-help psychology ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film character ⓘ |
| givenName | Leo ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Anna Marvin
ⓘ
Sigmund "Siggy" Marvin ⓘ
surface form:
Siggy Marvin
|
| hasFamilyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
enjoy a peaceful family vacation
ⓘ
promote his book "Baby Steps" ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole | foil to Bob Wiley ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
controlling
ⓘ
easily frustrated ⓘ egotistical ⓘ high-strung ⓘ impatient ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| hasRivalryWith | Bob Wiley ⓘ |
| isAuthorOf | Baby Steps ⓘ |
| isProtagonistOf | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | life unravels due to patient’s dependence ⓘ |
| notableTraitInPlot | increasingly irrational behavior ⓘ |
| notableWorkInStory | author of self-help book "Baby Steps" ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Dreyfuss ⓘ |
| primaryAntagonisticRelationshipWith | Bob Wiley ⓘ |
| professionallyTreats | Bob Wiley ⓘ |
| settingOfKeyEvents | family vacation home ⓘ |
| spouse | Fay Marvin ⓘ |
| title | Doctor ⓘ |
| undergoes | mental breakdown ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dr. Leo Marvin Description of subject: Dr. Leo Marvin is a high-strung, egotistical psychiatrist whose life unravels when an overly dependent patient invades his family vacation in the comedy film "What About Bob?".
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.