Tod Robbins
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Tod Robbins was an American author best known for his macabre and grotesque short stories and novels that inspired early horror films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tod Robbins canonical | 2 |
| Todd Robbins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5283394 — 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: Tod Robbins Context triple: [The Unholy Three (1925 film), basedOnAuthor, Tod Robbins]
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A.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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B.
Matthew Robbins
Matthew Robbins is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for his work on genre films such as Crimson Peak, Dragonslayer, and collaborations with directors like Guillermo del Toro.
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C.
David Rollins
David Rollins was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and early 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era Westerns and comedies.
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D.
Trevor Gardner
Trevor Gardner was a prominent U.S. defense official and aerospace executive known for his influential role in advancing American missile and space programs during the Cold War.
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E.
Trevor Timm
Trevor Timm is a journalist and civil liberties advocate known for his work on press freedom, government transparency, and digital rights.
- 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: Tod Robbins Target entity description: Tod Robbins was an American author best known for his macabre and grotesque short stories and novels that inspired early horror films.
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A.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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B.
Matthew Robbins
Matthew Robbins is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for his work on genre films such as Crimson Peak, Dragonslayer, and collaborations with directors like Guillermo del Toro.
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C.
David Rollins
David Rollins was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and early 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era Westerns and comedies.
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D.
Trevor Gardner
Trevor Gardner was a prominent U.S. defense official and aerospace executive known for his influential role in advancing American missile and space programs during the Cold War.
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E.
Trevor Timm
Trevor Timm is a journalist and civil liberties advocate known for his work on press freedom, government transparency, and digital rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWork |
Spurs
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The Unholy Three ⓘ Who Wants a Green Bottle? ⓘ |
| familyName | Robbins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
horror literature
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
macabre fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Clarence ⓘ |
| influenceOn | early horror cinema ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Freaks
ⓘ
The Unholy Three (1925 film) ⓘ The Unholy Three (1930 film) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tod Robbins ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
grotesque fiction
ⓘ
macabre short stories ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Spurs
ⓘ
The Unholy Three ⓘ Who Wants a Green Bottle? ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Tod Robbins Description of subject: Tod Robbins was an American author best known for his macabre and grotesque short stories and novels that inspired early horror films.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tod Robbins