Robert James Waller
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Robert James Waller was an American author and photographer best known for writing the bestselling romantic novel "The Bridges of Madison County."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert James Waller canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2116909 — 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 James Waller Context triple: [The Bridges of Madison County, authorOfSourceWork, Robert James Waller]
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A.
Jaime Carroll
Jaime Carroll is known as one of the children of longtime NFL head coach Pete Carroll.
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B.
Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
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C.
Harry Hart
Harry Hart is a suave, highly skilled British secret agent and mentor figure in the Kingsman film series.
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D.
Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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E.
Sebastian Wilder
Sebastian Wilder is a passionate jazz pianist and aspiring club owner in the film "La La Land," whose romance and artistic ambitions drive much of the movie’s emotional core.
- 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 James Waller Target entity description: Robert James Waller was an American author and photographer best known for writing the bestselling romantic novel "The Bridges of Madison County."
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A.
Jaime Carroll
Jaime Carroll is known as one of the children of longtime NFL head coach Pete Carroll.
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B.
Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
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C.
Harry Hart
Harry Hart is a suave, highly skilled British secret agent and mentor figure in the Kingsman film series.
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D.
Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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E.
Sebastian Wilder
Sebastian Wilder is a passionate jazz pianist and aspiring club owner in the film "La La Land," whose romance and artistic ambitions drive much of the movie’s emotional core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ photographer ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD in business
ⓘ
bachelor's degree in business education ⓘ master's degree in education ⓘ |
| awardReceived | bestselling author status for The Bridges of Madison County ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | multiple myeloma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-08-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-03-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana University
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surface form:
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Northern Iowa ⓘ |
| employer | University of Northern Iowa ⓘ |
| familyName | Waller ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
photography ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
romantic fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | James ⓘ |
| name | Robert James Waller self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | film adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County in 1995 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Thousand Country Roads
ⓘ
Border Music ⓘ High Plains Tango ⓘ Old Songs in a New Café ⓘ Puerto Vallarta ⓘ
surface form:
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend ⓘ The Bridges of Madison County ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
photographer ⓘ professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Charles City, Iowa, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Fredericksburg, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
dean of the College of Business
ⓘ
professor of management ⓘ |
| residence |
Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Iowa, United States
Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Texas, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Georgia Ann Wiedemeier ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cedar Falls, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States
|
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 James Waller Description of subject: Robert James Waller was an American author and photographer best known for writing the bestselling romantic novel "The Bridges of Madison County."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.