Robert Webb
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Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known as one half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and for his role as Jeremy Usborne in the television series "Peep Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Webb canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2698263 — 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 Webb Context triple: [Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, hasMember, Robert Webb]
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A.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
Adam Ackland
Adam Ackland is a British film and television producer known for his work on acclaimed dramas such as the series "Patrick Melrose."
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C.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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D.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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E.
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris was an American character actor best known for his flamboyant role as Dr. Zachary Smith on the TV series "Lost in Space" and for his distinctive voice work in animation.
- 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 Webb Target entity description: Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known as one half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and for his role as Jeremy Usborne in the television series "Peep Show."
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A.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
Adam Ackland
Adam Ackland is a British film and television producer known for his work on acclaimed dramas such as the series "Patrick Melrose."
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C.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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D.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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E.
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris was an American character actor best known for his flamboyant role as Dr. Zachary Smith on the TV series "Lost in Space" and for his distinctive voice work in animation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Webb Description of subject: Robert Webb is a British comedian, actor, and writer best known as one half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and for his role as Jeremy Usborne in the television series "Peep Show."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.