Robert Beatty
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Robert Beatty is a Canadian-American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including roles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and numerous British productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Beatty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5713842 — 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 Beatty Context triple: [Beatty, hasNotableBearer, Robert Beatty]
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A.
Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson is an Australian public figure who has served as the director of the Australian War Memorial, overseeing the nation’s principal institution for commemorating military service and history.
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B.
Joshua Brand
Joshua Brand is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating acclaimed series such as *St. Elsewhere* and *Northern Exposure*.
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C.
Michael Grant
Michael Grant is a relatively private individual best known in public records as the former husband of Athena Grant.
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D.
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award–winning British screenwriter known for films such as "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Full Monty," and "127 Hours."
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E.
Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his psychological horror and suspense stories, including the novel that inspired the film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
- 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 Beatty Target entity description: Robert Beatty is a Canadian-American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including roles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and numerous British productions.
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A.
Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson is an Australian public figure who has served as the director of the Australian War Memorial, overseeing the nation’s principal institution for commemorating military service and history.
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B.
Joshua Brand
Joshua Brand is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating acclaimed series such as *St. Elsewhere* and *Northern Exposure*.
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C.
Michael Grant
Michael Grant is a relatively private individual best known in public records as the former husband of Athena Grant.
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D.
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award–winning British screenwriter known for films such as "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Full Monty," and "127 Hours."
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E.
Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his psychological horror and suspense stories, including the novel that inspired the film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian-American
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1909-10-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-03-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Toronto ⓘ |
| familyName | Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role in 2001: A Space Odyssey
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roles in British film and television ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| movedTo | London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Robert Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2001: A Space Odyssey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Odd Man Out NERFINISHED ⓘ San Demetrio London NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pink Panther Strikes Again NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quatermass Xperiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Where Eagles Dare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ radio actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
authority figures
ⓘ
military officers ⓘ |
| residence | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Belinda Cunningham
NERFINISHED
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Dorothy Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellen McCulloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
British film industry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British television ⓘ |
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 Beatty Description of subject: Robert Beatty is a Canadian-American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including roles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and numerous British productions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.