Theodore Douglas Robinson
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Theodore Douglas Robinson was an American political figure and member of the Roosevelt family who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theodore Douglas Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2374523 — 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: Theodore Douglas Robinson Context triple: [USS Lexington (CV-2), sponsor, Theodore Douglas Robinson]
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A.
Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his commanding character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Wilbur Robinson
Wilbur Robinson was the husband of civil rights activist Jo Ann Robinson, who played a key role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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D.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
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E.
Roger Sherman Loomis
Roger Sherman Loomis was an American medievalist and literary scholar best known for his influential research on Arthurian legend and its Celtic origins.
- 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: Theodore Douglas Robinson Target entity description: Theodore Douglas Robinson was an American political figure and member of the Roosevelt family who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the early 20th century.
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A.
Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his commanding character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Wilbur Robinson
Wilbur Robinson was the husband of civil rights activist Jo Ann Robinson, who played a key role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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D.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
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E.
Roger Sherman Loomis
Roger Sherman Loomis was an American medievalist and literary scholar best known for his influential research on Arthurian legend and its Celtic origins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of the Roosevelt family ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1883-04-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1934-04-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| father | Douglas Robinson Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Roosevelt family ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| middleName | Douglas ⓘ |
| mother | Corinne Roosevelt Robinson ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy of the United States
ⓘ
member of the New York State Senate ⓘ |
| relative |
Eleanor Roosevelt
ⓘ
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Rebecca Roosevelt ⓘ |
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: Theodore Douglas Robinson Description of subject: Theodore Douglas Robinson was an American political figure and member of the Roosevelt family who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.