Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan was an American fantasy author best known for creating the epic series "The Wheel of Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Jordan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910055 — 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 Jordan Context triple: [Tor Books, notableAuthorPublished, Robert Jordan]
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Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan is a political figure who ran as a candidate in San Francisco’s 2019 mayoral election.
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Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan is the American dynamiter and Spanish Civil War volunteer who serves as the idealistic yet introspective protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is a prolific American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his intricate magic systems, expansive Cosmere universe, and completion of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series.
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Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is a bestselling American fantasy author best known for his long-running Shannara series.
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A. R. Martin
A. R. Martin is an editor best known for overseeing the influential British Interplanetary Society study volume on the interstellar spacecraft concept Project Daedalus.
- 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 Jordan Target entity description: Robert Jordan was an American fantasy author best known for creating the epic series "The Wheel of Time."
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A.
Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan is the American dynamiter and Spanish Civil War volunteer who serves as the idealistic yet introspective protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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B.
Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan is a political figure who ran as a candidate in San Francisco’s 2019 mayoral election.
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C.
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is a prolific American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his intricate magic systems, expansive Cosmere universe, and completion of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series.
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D.
Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is a bestselling American fantasy author best known for his long-running Shannara series.
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E.
A. R. Martin
A. R. Martin is an editor best known for overseeing the influential British Interplanetary Society study volume on the interstellar spacecraft concept Project Daedalus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Jordan Description of subject: Robert Jordan was an American fantasy author best known for creating the epic series "The Wheel of Time."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Wheel of Time
subject linked to:
Logain Ablar in The Wheel of Time
subject linked to:
Robert Jordan
subject linked to:
Moiraine Damodred in The Wheel of Time