Robert Englund
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Robert Englund is an American actor best known for portraying the iconic horror villain Freddy Krueger in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Englund canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485667 — 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 Englund Context triple: [A Nightmare on Elm Street, starring, Robert Englund]
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A.
Cliff Gorman
Cliff Gorman was an American actor best known for his Tony Award-winning performance in the original Broadway production of "Lenny" and for his character roles in film and television.
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B.
Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan Hyde is an English-Australian actor known for his roles in films like "Titanic," "Jumanji," and "The Mummy," as well as extensive work in television, theatre, and voice acting.
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C.
Jim Norton
Jim Norton is an Irish character actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "Father Ted" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
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D.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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E.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes was an English television and film actor best known for his role as Bob Ferris in the popular sitcom "The Likely Lads" and its sequel "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?".
- 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 Englund Target entity description: Robert Englund is an American actor best known for portraying the iconic horror villain Freddy Krueger in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series.
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A.
Cliff Gorman
Cliff Gorman was an American actor best known for his Tony Award-winning performance in the original Broadway production of "Lenny" and for his character roles in film and television.
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B.
Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan Hyde is an English-Australian actor known for his roles in films like "Titanic," "Jumanji," and "The Mummy," as well as extensive work in television, theatre, and voice acting.
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C.
Jim Norton
Jim Norton is an Irish character actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "Father Ted" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
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D.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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E.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes was an English television and film actor best known for his role as Bob Ferris in the popular sitcom "The Likely Lads" and its sequel "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Hatchet
NERFINISHED
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Strangeland NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mangler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Phantom of the Opera (1989 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Urban Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ V NERFINISHED ⓘ Wishmaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Barton Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Freddy Krueger
NERFINISHED
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Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Nightmares ⓘ Willie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-06-06 ⓘ |
| directed | 976-EVIL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California State University, Northridge
NERFINISHED
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ⓘ UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasGenreAssociation | slasher film ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0000387 ⓘ |
| hasSignatureRole | Freddy Krueger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
NERFINISHED
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master NERFINISHED ⓘ A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddy vs. Jason NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddy's Nightmares NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Craven's New Nightmare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glendale, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nancy Booth
NERFINISHED
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Roxanne Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970–present ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Englund Description of subject: Robert Englund is an American actor best known for portraying the iconic horror villain Freddy Krueger in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.