Robert Burton (married 1973; divorced)
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Robert Burton is an American actor best known for his brief marriage in the 1970s to acclaimed actress Karen Black.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Burton (married 1973; divorced) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1650882 — 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)
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Target entity: Robert Burton (married 1973; divorced) Context triple: [Karen Black, spouse, Robert Burton (married 1973; divorced)]
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A.
George Merrill (divorced)
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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B.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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C.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
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D.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
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E.
Tony Burton
Tony Burton was an American actor and former professional boxer best known for his recurring role as Duke, the trainer and cornerman, in the Rocky film series.
- 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 Burton (married 1973; divorced) Target entity description: Robert Burton is an American actor best known for his brief marriage in the 1970s to acclaimed actress Karen Black.
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A.
George Merrill (divorced)
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known as one half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, co-writing Whitney Houston hits like "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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B.
Susan Brown (divorced)
Susan Brown is the former wife of American businessman and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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C.
Julia Bingham (divorced)
Julia Bingham is the former wife of American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
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D.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
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E.
Tony Burton
Tony Burton was an American actor and former professional boxer best known for his recurring role as Duke, the trainer and cornerman, in the Rocky film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1973 ⓘ |
| notableFor | brief marriage to Karen Black ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Black ⓘ |
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 Burton (married 1973; divorced) Description of subject: Robert Burton is an American actor best known for his brief marriage in the 1970s to acclaimed actress Karen Black.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.