Phil Alden Robinson
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Phil Alden Robinson is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing and directing the acclaimed baseball fantasy film "Field of Dreams."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phil Alden Robinson canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2835053 — 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: Phil Alden Robinson Context triple: [All of Me, screenwriter, Phil Alden Robinson]
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A.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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D.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
- 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: Phil Alden Robinson Target entity description: Phil Alden Robinson is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing and directing the acclaimed baseball fantasy film "Field of Dreams."
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A.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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D.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Phil Alden Robinson Description of subject: Phil Alden Robinson is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing and directing the acclaimed baseball fantasy film "Field of Dreams."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Happy New Year (1987 film)
subject surface form:
Field of Dreams
subject surface form:
Field of Dreams