Charlie Kohler
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Charlie Kohler is the shy, reclusive pianist protagonist of François Truffaut’s film "Shoot the Piano Player," whose troubled past and entanglement with criminals drive the movie’s tragicomic narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charlie Kohler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9846608 — 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: Charlie Kohler Context triple: [Shoot the Piano Player, character, Charlie Kohler]
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A.
Tom Weiskopf
Tom Weiskopf was an American professional golfer and acclaimed golf course architect known for his major championship win and numerous high-profile course designs.
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B.
Fred Couples
Fred Couples is an American professional golfer renowned for his smooth swing, major championship victory at the 1992 Masters, and long-standing success on both the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.
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C.
Ben Crenshaw
Ben Crenshaw is an American professional golfer and World Golf Hall of Famer renowned for his smooth putting stroke and two Masters Tournament victories.
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D.
Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson was an American professional golfer renowned for his dominant 1945 season, during which he won 18 tournaments including 11 consecutively, and is considered one of the sport’s all-time greats.
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E.
Donald Ross
Donald Ross was a prominent early 20th-century golf course architect renowned for designing many classic courses across the United States.
- 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: Charlie Kohler Target entity description: Charlie Kohler is the shy, reclusive pianist protagonist of François Truffaut’s film "Shoot the Piano Player," whose troubled past and entanglement with criminals drive the movie’s tragicomic narrative.
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A.
Tom Weiskopf
Tom Weiskopf was an American professional golfer and acclaimed golf course architect known for his major championship win and numerous high-profile course designs.
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B.
Fred Couples
Fred Couples is an American professional golfer renowned for his smooth swing, major championship victory at the 1992 Masters, and long-standing success on both the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.
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C.
Ben Crenshaw
Ben Crenshaw is an American professional golfer and World Golf Hall of Famer renowned for his smooth putting stroke and two Masters Tournament victories.
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D.
Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson was an American professional golfer renowned for his dominant 1945 season, during which he won 18 tournaments including 11 consecutively, and is considered one of the sport’s all-time greats.
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E.
Donald Ross
Donald Ross was a prominent early 20th-century golf course architect renowned for designing many classic courses across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Édouard Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shoot the Piano Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmBy | François Truffaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | tragicomedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
escape from past
ⓘ
family loyalty ⓘ |
| basedOn | Édouard from the novel Down There NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | David Goodis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeAround |
failure
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| characterArc | from withdrawal toward brief emotional openness and back to isolation ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
reclusive
ⓘ
shy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| creator | François Truffaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| entangledWith | criminals ⓘ |
| familyName | Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Shoot the Piano Player (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | concert pianist ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | French New Wave film ⓘ |
| givenName | Édouard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryEvent | wife’s suicide after his career collapse ⓘ |
| hasPast | troubled past as a once-famous concert pianist ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Chico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fido NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inConflictWith | gangsters pursuing his brother ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | French ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives tragicomic plot ⓘ |
| narrativeOutcome | returns to playing anonymously in the bar ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
bar pianist
ⓘ
pianist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Charles Aznavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Léna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Paris bar ⓘ |
| toneOfStoryAround |
comic
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Charlie Kohler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Charlie Kohler Description of subject: Charlie Kohler is the shy, reclusive pianist protagonist of François Truffaut’s film "Shoot the Piano Player," whose troubled past and entanglement with criminals drive the movie’s tragicomic narrative.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.