Robert Reed
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Robert Reed was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Mike Brady on the television series "The Brady Bunch."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Reed canonical | 4 |
| Kenneth Preston – Robert Reed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228727 — 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 Reed Context triple: [Roots, narrator, Robert Reed]
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A.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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B.
Michael Landon
Michael Landon was a popular American actor, writer, director, and producer best known for his starring roles in the television series "Bonanza," "Little House on the Prairie," and "Highway to Heaven."
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C.
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an American film director known for his work on classic Hollywood Westerns, film noirs, and adventure films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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D.
Robert McLane
Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
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E.
Matthew Landon
Matthew Landon is a film editor known for his work on the animated feature "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie."
- 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 Reed Target entity description: Robert Reed was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Mike Brady on the television series "The Brady Bunch."
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A.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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B.
Michael Landon
Michael Landon was a popular American actor, writer, director, and producer best known for his starring roles in the television series "Bonanza," "Little House on the Prairie," and "Highway to Heaven."
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C.
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an American film director known for his work on classic Hollywood Westerns, film noirs, and adventure films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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D.
Robert McLane
Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
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E.
Matthew Landon
Matthew Landon is a film editor known for his work on the animated feature "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | John R. Rietz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A Very Brady Christmas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Brady Bunch Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brady Bunch Movie (cameo via archival footage) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brady Girls Get Married NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Robert Rietz Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
HIV-related complications
ⓘ
colon cancer ⓘ |
| characterIn |
The Brady Bunch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Defenders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Karen Rietz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-10-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-05-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1954 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Northwestern University
ⓘ
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
English descent
ⓘ
German descent ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
television comedy
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Mike Brady, the father on The Brady Bunch ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | Robert Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rich Man, Poor Man
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roots NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brady Bunch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Defenders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Highland Park, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pasadena, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| role |
Kenneth Preston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Brady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Marilyn Rosenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1957–1992 ⓘ |
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 Reed Description of subject: Robert Reed was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Mike Brady on the television series "The Brady Bunch."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kenneth Preston – Robert Reed
subject surface form:
The Defenders (1961 TV series)