Robert Sterling
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Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Sterling canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13309753 — 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: Robert Sterling Context triple: [Johnny Eager, starring, Robert Sterling]
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A.
Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
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B.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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C.
Robert Pike
Robert Pike was the husband of pioneering American screenwriter and director Frances Marion, one of early Hollywood’s most celebrated film writers.
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D.
Leo Hunt
Leo Hunt is a fictional child character in the television series "Grey's Anatomy," known as the son of trauma surgeon Owen Hunt.
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E.
Ross Marquand
Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Robert Sterling Target entity description: Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
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A.
Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
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B.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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C.
Robert Pike
Robert Pike was the husband of pioneering American screenwriter and director Frances Marion, one of early Hollywood’s most celebrated film writers.
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D.
Leo Hunt
Leo Hunt is a fictional child character in the television series "Grey's Anatomy," known as the son of trauma surgeon Owen Hunt.
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E.
Ross Marquand
Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| birthName | William Sterling Hart ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cremated (ashes given to family) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Patricia Ann Sterling
ⓘ
William Robert Hart ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-11-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-05-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDivorce | 1949 (from Ann Sothern) ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage |
1943-10-24 (to Ann Sothern)
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1951 (to Anne Jeffreys) ⓘ |
| education | New Castle High School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of George Kerby in Topper (TV series) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| name | Robert Sterling ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aloha (1942 film) (supporting role)
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Love That Jill (TV series) ⓘ Ringside Maisie (1941 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Ringside Maisie
Show Boat (1940 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Show Boat
The Ann Sothern Show (guest appearances) ⓘ The Get-Away (1941 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Getaway (1941 film)
The Whistling series (supporting roles) ⓘ Topper (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Topper (1953–1955 TV series)
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| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New Castle, Pennsylvania
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| placeOfDeath |
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Brentwood, Los Angeles
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| relative |
Ann Sothern (former spouse)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Sothern
Anne Jeffreys (spouse) ⓘ
linked to:
Anne Jeffreys
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| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
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linked to:
Los Angeles
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ann Sothern
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Anne Jeffreys ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Columbia Pictures
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ RKO Pictures ⓘ
linked to:
RKO Radio Pictures
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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: Robert Sterling Description of subject: Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.