Robert Peter Williams
E434428
Robert Peter Williams, better known as Robbie Williams, is a British pop singer and entertainer who rose to fame with the boy band Take That before achieving a highly successful solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Peter Williams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363236 — 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 Peter Williams Context triple: [Robbie Williams, fullName, Robert Peter Williams]
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A.
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
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B.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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C.
Thomas Lyle Williams
Thomas Lyle Williams was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Maybelline cosmetics brand, which became one of the world’s leading makeup companies.
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D.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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E.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
- 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 Peter Williams Target entity description: Robert Peter Williams, better known as Robbie Williams, is a British pop singer and entertainer who rose to fame with the boy band Take That before achieving a highly successful solo career.
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A.
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
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B.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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C.
Thomas Lyle Williams
Thomas Lyle Williams was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Maybelline cosmetics brand, which became one of the world’s leading makeup companies.
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D.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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E.
Andrew Whitham
Andrew Whitham is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the William Smith Medal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BRIT Award
ⓘ
linked to:
BRIT Awards
Ivor Novello Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1974-02-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
ⓘ
Staffordshire ⓘ Stoke-on-Trent ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| endTime | Take That membership 1995 ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Beau Benedict Enthoven Williams
ⓘ
Charlton Valentine Williams ⓘ Coco Williams ⓘ Theodora Rose Williams ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2010 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Take That ⓘ |
| name | Robert Peter Williams ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
multiple UK number-one albums
ⓘ
multiple UK number-one singles ⓘ one of the best-selling British solo artists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album Escapology
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album I've Been Expecting You ⓘ album Intensive Care ⓘ album Life thru a Lens ⓘ album Reality Killed the Video Star ⓘ album Rudebox ⓘ album Sing When You're Winning ⓘ album Swings Both Ways ⓘ album Take the Crown ⓘ album The Christmas Present ⓘ album The Heavy Entertainment Show ⓘ single Angels ⓘ
linked to:
Angels
single Come Undone ⓘ single Feel ⓘ single Let Me Entertain You ⓘ
linked to:
Let Me Entertain You
single Millennium ⓘ single Rock DJ ⓘ single She's the One ⓘ single Supreme ⓘ single Tripping ⓘ |
| occupation |
entertainer
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| residence |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| returnedTo |
Take That (2010–2012)
ⓘ
linked to:
Take That
|
| spouse | Ayda Field ⓘ |
| stageName | Robbie Williams ⓘ |
| startTime | Take That membership 1990 ⓘ |
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 Peter Williams Description of subject: Robert Peter Williams, better known as Robbie Williams, is a British pop singer and entertainer who rose to fame with the boy band Take That before achieving a highly successful solo career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.