Matt Fowler
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Matt Fowler is the central character in the film "In the Bedroom," a middle-aged father whose life unravels after a family tragedy forces him to confront grief, anger, and the limits of justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Fowler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10032168 — 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: Matt Fowler Context triple: [In the Bedroom, mainCharacter, Matt Fowler]
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A.
Matt Rogers
Matt Rogers is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder of Nest Labs, the smart home technology company behind the Nest Thermostat.
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B.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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C.
Phil Wenneck
Phil Wenneck is a charismatic, fast-talking schoolteacher and member of the "Wolfpack" whose misadventures drive much of the comedy in The Hangover film series.
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D.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- 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: Matt Fowler Target entity description: Matt Fowler is the central character in the film "In the Bedroom," a middle-aged father whose life unravels after a family tragedy forces him to confront grief, anger, and the limits of justice.
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A.
Matt Rogers
Matt Rogers is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder of Nest Labs, the smart home technology company behind the Nest Thermostat.
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B.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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C.
Phil Wenneck
Phil Wenneck is a charismatic, fast-talking schoolteacher and member of the "Wolfpack" whose misadventures drive much of the comedy in The Hangover film series.
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D.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Todd Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | In the Bedroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| child | Frank Fowler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confronts |
limits of justice
ⓘ
limits of the legal system ⓘ |
| copingMechanism | suppression of emotions ⓘ |
| createdBy | Andre Dubus (original short story character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotion |
anger
ⓘ
grief ⓘ |
| familyTragedy | death of his son Frank Fowler ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 2001 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| moralConflict | whether to seek personal revenge ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | doctor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Wilkinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTo |
father of Frank Fowler
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husband of Ruth Fowler ⓘ |
| residence | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | small coastal town in Maine ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth Fowler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| takesActionAgainst | Richard Strout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
grief
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marital strain ⓘ revenge ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ |
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: Matt Fowler Description of subject: Matt Fowler is the central character in the film "In the Bedroom," a middle-aged father whose life unravels after a family tragedy forces him to confront grief, anger, and the limits of justice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.