Anton Tobias
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Anton Tobias is the slacker teenage protagonist of the horror-comedy film "Idle Hands," whose possessed hand turns him into an unwitting killer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anton Tobias canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6730786 — 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: Anton Tobias Context triple: [Idle Hands, mainCharacter, Anton Tobias]
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A.
Anton Furst
Anton Furst was an Academy Award–winning British production designer best known for his dark, expressionistic Gotham City designs in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989).
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B.
Tobias Ritter
Tobias Ritter is a German-born organic chemist recognized for his contributions to fluorination chemistry and for leading a prominent research group in synthetic methodology.
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C.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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D.
Tobias
Tobias is the full given name of Toby Ziegler, the fictional White House Communications Director from the television series "The West Wing."
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E.
Tobias
Tobias is a central character in Edward Albee’s play "A Delicate Balance," portrayed as an affluent, aging suburban patriarch grappling with emotional detachment, existential unease, and the fragility of his family relationships.
- 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: Anton Tobias Target entity description: Anton Tobias is the slacker teenage protagonist of the horror-comedy film "Idle Hands," whose possessed hand turns him into an unwitting killer.
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A.
Anton Furst
Anton Furst was an Academy Award–winning British production designer best known for his dark, expressionistic Gotham City designs in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989).
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B.
Tobias Ritter
Tobias Ritter is a German-born organic chemist recognized for his contributions to fluorination chemistry and for leading a prominent research group in synthetic methodology.
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C.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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D.
Tobias
Tobias is the full given name of Toby Ziegler, the fictional White House Communications Director from the television series "The West Wing."
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E.
Tobias
Tobias is a central character in Edward Albee’s play "A Delicate Balance," portrayed as an affluent, aging suburban patriarch grappling with emotional detachment, existential unease, and the fragility of his family relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Idle Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
black comedy
ⓘ
teen horror ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Halloween setting ⓘ |
| causeOfViolence | demonic possession of his hand ⓘ |
| characterType |
slacker
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teenager ⓘ |
| conflict | tries to stop his severed hand from killing people ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Ron Milbauer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terri Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext | horror-comedy ⓘ |
| handStatus | possessed hand ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Molly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | unwitting killer ⓘ |
| notableAction | cuts off his own possessed hand ⓘ |
| occupationInStory | high school student ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
lazy
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stoner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Devon Sawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Idle Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship |
friend of Mick
ⓘ
friend of Pnub ⓘ |
| setting | suburban American town ⓘ |
| toneOfStory |
comedic
ⓘ
horror ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1999 ⓘ |
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: Anton Tobias Description of subject: Anton Tobias is the slacker teenage protagonist of the horror-comedy film "Idle Hands," whose possessed hand turns him into an unwitting killer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.