Ryan Bingham
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Ryan Bingham is the corporate downsizer and frequent flyer protagonist of the film "Up in the Air," known for his detached lifestyle and constant business travel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ryan Bingham canonical | 2 |
| Ryan Bingham (novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T657077 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Ryan Bingham Context triple: [George Clooney, portrayedCharacter, Ryan Bingham]
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Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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Jesse Fell
Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
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C.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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D.
Jack Driscoll
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Danny Darwin
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- 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: Ryan Bingham Target entity description: Ryan Bingham is the corporate downsizer and frequent flyer protagonist of the film "Up in the Air," known for his detached lifestyle and constant business travel.
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A.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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B.
Jesse Fell
Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
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C.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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D.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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E.
Danny Darwin
Danny Darwin is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from the late 1970s through the 1990s for several teams, including the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Ryan Bingham
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ryan Bingham (novel character)
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| appearsIn | Up in the Air ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBasedOn |
Up in the Air
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surface form:
Up in the Air (novel)
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| basedIn | Omaha, Nebraska ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | seeks deeper human connection by the end of the film ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
charming ⓘ commitment-averse ⓘ cynical ⓘ emotionally detached ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ self-sufficient ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jason Reitman
ⓘ
Sheldon Turner ⓘ |
| familyBackground | estranged from his family ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| frequentFlyerStatus | obsessed with airline miles ⓘ |
| genre | drama-comedy character ⓘ |
| gives | motivational speeches about empty backpacks ⓘ |
| goal | to reach ten million frequent flyer miles ⓘ |
| hotelLoyalty | Hilton HHonors program ⓘ |
| interactsWith | Natalie Keener ⓘ |
| loyaltyProgram |
AAdvantage
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surface form:
American Airlines frequent flyer program
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| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | gradually questions his isolated lifestyle ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person voiceover in the film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detached lifestyle
ⓘ
frequent business travel ⓘ |
| novelAuthor | Walter Kirn ⓘ |
| occupation |
career transition counselor
ⓘ
corporate downsizer ⓘ |
| philosophy | advocates a minimalist, baggage-free lifestyle ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | George Clooney ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | traveling to fire employees on behalf of companies ⓘ |
| relationship | forms romantic connection with Alex Goran ⓘ |
| screenTimeFocus | central protagonist of Up in the Air ⓘ |
| setting | corporate America ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
modern corporate alienation
ⓘ
the dehumanizing nature of corporate downsizing ⓘ |
| transportMode | commercial airlines ⓘ |
| travelPattern | constant air travel across the United States ⓘ |
| worksFor | Career Transition Counseling company ⓘ |
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: Ryan Bingham Description of subject: Ryan Bingham is the corporate downsizer and frequent flyer protagonist of the film "Up in the Air," known for his detached lifestyle and constant business travel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ryan Bingham (novel character)