Silent Bob
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Silent Bob is a mostly silent, trench-coat-wearing slacker and half of the comedic duo with Jay in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silent Bob canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5914145 — 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: Silent Bob Context triple: [Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, featuresCharacter, Silent Bob]
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A.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows the misadventures of his recurring characters Jay and Silent Bob as they travel to Hollywood to stop a movie based on their lives.
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B.
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows a day in the lives of two convenience store clerks and became a cult classic.
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C.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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D.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker known for his high-pitched, frantic comedic persona and roles in films like the Police Academy series.
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E.
Dave the Dude
Dave the Dude is a charismatic New York gangster and gambler who becomes entangled in a heartwarming scheme to help an aging street peddler in the film "Pocketful of Miracles."
- 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: Silent Bob Target entity description: Silent Bob is a mostly silent, trench-coat-wearing slacker and half of the comedic duo with Jay in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
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A.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows the misadventures of his recurring characters Jay and Silent Bob as they travel to Hollywood to stop a movie based on their lives.
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B.
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows a day in the lives of two convenience store clerks and became a cult classic.
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C.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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D.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker known for his high-pitched, frantic comedic persona and roles in films like the Police Academy series.
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E.
Dave the Dude
Dave the Dude is a charismatic New York gangster and gambler who becomes entangled in a heartwarming scheme to help an aging street peddler in the film "Pocketful of Miracles."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
View Askewniverse character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| alias | Silent Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm |
Chasing Amy
NERFINISHED
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Clerks NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks II NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks III NERFINISHED ⓘ Clerks: The Animated Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Dogma NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay and Silent Bob Reboot NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Mallrats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInUniverse | View Askewniverse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
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Quick Stop Groceries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType | slacker ⓘ |
| clothing |
backwards baseball cap
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trench coat ⓘ |
| communicationStyle |
gives brief insightful monologues
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rarely speaks ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kevin Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorRoleOfActor | Kevin Smith also wrote and directed many films featuring Silent Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Clerks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| franchise | Jay and Silent Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase | occasionally says "no ticket" in Dogma ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
mostly silent
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smokes ⓘ wears trench coat ⓘ |
| occupation |
drug dealer
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slacker ⓘ |
| partOfDuoWith | Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInStories |
comic relief
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sidekick ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
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: Silent Bob Description of subject: Silent Bob is a mostly silent, trench-coat-wearing slacker and half of the comedic duo with Jay in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.