Bob Roberts
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Bob Roberts is a 1992 satirical mockumentary film about a right-wing folk-singing politician, written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Roberts canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2535561 — 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: Bob Roberts Context triple: [Tim Robbins, notableWork, Bob Roberts]
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A.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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B.
Jeff Buchanan
Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
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C.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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D.
Robin Dole
Robin Dole is an American lawyer and lobbyist best known as the daughter of the late U.S. Senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.
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E.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
- 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: Bob Roberts Target entity description: Bob Roberts is a 1992 satirical mockumentary film about a right-wing folk-singing politician, written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins.
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A.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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B.
Jeff Buchanan
Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
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C.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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D.
Robin Dole
Robin Dole is an American lawyer and lobbyist best known as the daughter of the late U.S. Senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.
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E.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
mockumentary film ⓘ satirical film ⓘ |
| about | a right-wing folk-singing politician ⓘ |
| castMember | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
electoral politics
ⓘ
right-wing politics in the United States ⓘ |
| directedBy | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| director | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| genre |
mockumentary
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | mockumentary ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPoliticalOrientation | right-wing ⓘ |
| mainCharacterProfession | folk singer ⓘ |
| producer | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1992 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| starring | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| stars | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Bob Roberts self-link ⓘ |
| writer | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Tim Robbins ⓘ |
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: Bob Roberts Description of subject: Bob Roberts is a 1992 satirical mockumentary film about a right-wing folk-singing politician, written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.