J. Robert Spencer
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J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| J. Robert Spencer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060802 — 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: J. Robert Spencer Context triple: [Next to Normal, originalBroadwayCastMember, J. Robert Spencer]
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A.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
Timothy J. Roemer
Timothy J. Roemer is an American politician and diplomat, a former U.S. congressman from Indiana who later served as U.S. Ambassador to India.
- 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: J. Robert Spencer Target entity description: J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
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A.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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D.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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E.
Timothy J. Roemer
Timothy J. Roemer is an American politician and diplomat, a former U.S. congressman from Indiana who later served as U.S. Ambassador to India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Broadway theatre ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-02-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Shenandoah Conservatory
ⓘ
Shenandoah University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre performance
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Spencer ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasStageName | J. Robert Spencer self-link ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.jrobertspencer.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Next to Normal ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musical theatre actor ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| performerIn |
Broadway productions
ⓘ
Jersey Boys ⓘ Next to Normal ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Delaware
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surface form:
Delaware, United States
|
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jenny-Lynn Suckling ⓘ |
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: J. Robert Spencer Description of subject: J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.