Joe DuBois
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Joe DuBois is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Medium," portrayed as Allison DuBois's supportive and pragmatic husband who balances family life with her psychic crime-solving work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe DuBois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9258882 — 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: Joe DuBois Context triple: [Medium (TV series), character, Joe DuBois]
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A.
Tom DuBois
Tom DuBois is a mild-mannered, upper-middle-class Black lawyer and family man in the animated series "The Boondocks," often portrayed as anxious, conflict-averse, and deeply fearful of the criminal justice system.
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B.
DeWitt Jennings
DeWitt Jennings was an American character actor of the early 20th century known for his numerous supporting roles in silent and early sound films.
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C.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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D.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
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E.
John Daggett
John Daggett is a wealthy and unscrupulous Gotham City businessman from the Batman universe, notably appearing as a corporate antagonist in "The Dark Knight Rises."
- 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: Joe DuBois Target entity description: Joe DuBois is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Medium," portrayed as Allison DuBois's supportive and pragmatic husband who balances family life with her psychic crime-solving work.
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A.
Tom DuBois
Tom DuBois is a mild-mannered, upper-middle-class Black lawyer and family man in the animated series "The Boondocks," often portrayed as anxious, conflict-averse, and deeply fearful of the criminal justice system.
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B.
DeWitt Jennings
DeWitt Jennings was an American character actor of the early 20th century known for his numerous supporting roles in silent and early sound films.
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C.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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D.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
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E.
John Daggett
John Daggett is a wealthy and unscrupulous Gotham City businessman from the Batman universe, notably appearing as a corporate antagonist in "The Dark Knight Rises."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Medium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork |
CBS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Joe DuBois (real person) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
loving father
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ rational ⓘ supportive ⓘ |
| conflictType |
balancing career and family
ⓘ
coping with Allison's visions ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Glenn Gordon Caron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeries | Medium season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | supernatural drama ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ariel DuBois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bridgette DuBois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie DuBois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Allison DuBois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
grounding influence for Allison
ⓘ
skeptical viewpoint on supernatural events ⓘ |
| occupation | aerospace engineer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jake Weber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryConcern | well-being of his family ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
pragmatic partner
ⓘ
supportive husband ⓘ |
| setting | Phoenix, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Allison DuBois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports | Allison DuBois's psychic work ⓘ |
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: Joe DuBois Description of subject: Joe DuBois is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Medium," portrayed as Allison DuBois's supportive and pragmatic husband who balances family life with her psychic crime-solving work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.