Richard O'Brien
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Richard O'Brien is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, and musician best known as the creator of "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role as Riff Raff in its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard O'Brien canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5342519 — 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: Richard O'Brien Context triple: [Dark City, starredActor, Richard O'Brien]
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A.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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B.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
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C.
Bob Crowley
Bob Crowley is an acclaimed Irish theatre designer and director renowned for his innovative scenic and costume designs for major Broadway and West End productions.
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D.
Brian Hugh Warner
Brian Hugh Warner is an American musician, singer, and artist best known as the controversial shock-rock performer Marilyn Manson.
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E.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
- 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: Richard O'Brien Target entity description: Richard O'Brien is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, and musician best known as the creator of "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role as Riff Raff in its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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A.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler was an American Revolutionary War officer and frontiersman whose military service on the early western frontier led to several U.S. counties being named in his honor.
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B.
Richard Butler
Richard Butler is an Australian diplomat best known for leading United Nations weapons inspection efforts in Iraq during the late 1990s.
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C.
Bob Crowley
Bob Crowley is an acclaimed Irish theatre designer and director renowned for his innovative scenic and costume designs for major Broadway and West End productions.
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D.
Brian Hugh Warner
Brian Hugh Warner is an American musician, singer, and artist best known as the controversial shock-rock performer Marilyn Manson.
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E.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lyricist ⓘ musician ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Dark City
NERFINISHED
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Ever After NERFINISHED ⓘ Flash Gordon (1980 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shock Treatment NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocky Horror Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Timothy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIn | The Rocky Horror Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composerOf | songs for The Rocky Horror Show ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
New Zealand
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorOf | The Rocky Horror Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-03-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | British ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| hosted | The Crystal Maze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | cult musical theatre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricistOf | The Rocky Horror Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Richard O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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New Zealander ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating a major cult classic film ⓘ |
| notableRole | Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Rocky Horror Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
game show host ⓘ musician ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Riff Raff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jane Moss
NERFINISHED
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Kimi Wong NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabrina Graf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageWork | original stage production of The Rocky Horror Show ⓘ |
| writerOf | The Rocky Horror Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard O'Brien Description of subject: Richard O'Brien is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, and musician best known as the creator of "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role as Riff Raff in its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.