Fay Marvin
E380800
Fay Marvin is a supporting character in the comedy film "What About Bob?", known as the good-natured wife of psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fay Marvin canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3681429 — 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: Fay Marvin Context triple: [What About Bob?, character, Fay Marvin]
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A.
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford was an American traditional pop and jazz singer renowned for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings from the 1940s through the 1950s.
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B.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting was an American traditional pop and country music singer prominent in the 1940s and 1950s, known for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings.
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D.
Cornelia Lane
Cornelia Lane was the second wife of American author Sherwood Anderson, known primarily through her marriage to the influential modernist writer.
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E.
Mary Hopkins
Mary Hopkins was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of early Rhode Island governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins.
- 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: Fay Marvin Target entity description: Fay Marvin is a supporting character in the comedy film "What About Bob?", known as the good-natured wife of psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin.
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A.
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford was an American traditional pop and jazz singer renowned for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings from the 1940s through the 1950s.
-
B.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting was an American traditional pop and country music singer prominent in the 1940s and 1950s, known for her smooth vocal style and numerous hit recordings.
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D.
Cornelia Lane
Cornelia Lane was the second wife of American author Sherwood Anderson, known primarily through her marriage to the influential modernist writer.
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E.
Mary Hopkins
Mary Hopkins was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of early Rhode Island governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
coping with stress
ⓘ
family dynamics ⓘ |
| characterTrait | good-natured ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor | What About Bob? ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | What About Bob? universe ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole |
mother
ⓘ
wife ⓘ |
| hasOnScreenFamilyName | Marvin ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Fay Marvin self-link ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
foil to Dr. Leo Marvin’s rigidity
ⓘ
support for Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ |
| occupationInStory | homemaker ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ |
| roleInStory | supporting character ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Dr. Leo Marvin ⓘ |
| toneOfCharacter |
supportive
ⓘ
warm ⓘ |
| workType | 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: Fay Marvin Description of subject: Fay Marvin is a supporting character in the comedy film "What About Bob?", known as the good-natured wife of psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dr. Leo Marvin
subject surface form:
Dr. Leo Marvin