Warren Schmidt
E875110
Warren Schmidt is the aging, recently retired insurance executive portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "About Schmidt," who embarks on a soul-searching journey after his wife's death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warren Schmidt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789289 — 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: Warren Schmidt Context triple: [About Schmidt, character, Warren Schmidt]
-
A.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
-
B.
Cliff Schmautz
Cliff Schmautz was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger best known for his prolific scoring in the Western Hockey League and later play in the NHL during the 1960s and 1970s.
-
C.
John Schehr
John Schehr was a German communist politician and anti-fascist resistance figure who briefly led the Communist Party of Germany before being killed by the Nazis in 1934.
-
D.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
-
E.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
- 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: Warren Schmidt Target entity description: Warren Schmidt is the aging, recently retired insurance executive portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "About Schmidt," who embarks on a soul-searching journey after his wife's death.
-
A.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
-
B.
Cliff Schmautz
Cliff Schmautz was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger best known for his prolific scoring in the Western Hockey League and later play in the NHL during the 1960s and 1970s.
-
C.
John Schehr
John Schehr was a German communist politician and anti-fascist resistance figure who briefly led the Communist Party of Germany before being killed by the Nazis in 1934.
-
D.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
-
E.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | About Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | protagonist of the novel About Schmidt by Louis Begley (loosely) ⓘ |
| correspondsWith | Ndugu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Alexander Payne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| donatesTo | child sponsorship program ⓘ |
| employer | Woodmen of the World Insurance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfStory | 2002 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jeannie Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
daughter’s wedding
ⓘ
death of wife ⓘ retirement ⓘ road trip ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusOf | About Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | insurance executive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Nicholson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Omaha, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
aging
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ loneliness ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
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: Warren Schmidt Description of subject: Warren Schmidt is the aging, recently retired insurance executive portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "About Schmidt," who embarks on a soul-searching journey after his wife's death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.