Robert Hanson
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Robert Hanson is a central character in the comedy series "Grace and Frankie," portrayed as a retired divorce lawyer whose coming out as gay and subsequent relationship with his law partner upends both their families’ lives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Hanson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7217482 — 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 Hanson Context triple: [Grace and Frankie, mainCharacter, Robert Hanson]
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A.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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B.
Bob Hanson
Bob Hanson is the gruff, world-weary owner of a remote desert diner who becomes an unlikely defender of humanity in the supernatural action-horror film "Legion" (2010).
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C.
Rex Hanson
Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
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D.
Jon Hensley
Jon Hensley is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Holden Snyder on the soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- 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 Hanson Target entity description: Robert Hanson is a central character in the comedy series "Grace and Frankie," portrayed as a retired divorce lawyer whose coming out as gay and subsequent relationship with his law partner upends both their families’ lives.
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A.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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B.
Bob Hanson
Bob Hanson is the gruff, world-weary owner of a remote desert diner who becomes an unlikely defender of humanity in the supernatural action-horror film "Legion" (2010).
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C.
Rex Hanson
Rex Hanson is a wealthy, arrogant antagonist in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2," known for scheming against the main characters.
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D.
Jon Hensley
Jon Hensley is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Holden Snyder on the soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Grace and Frankie ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Howard J. Morris
ⓘ
Marta Kauffman ⓘ |
| familyName | Hanson ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Grace and Frankie ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Grace and Frankie, Season 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| formerSpouse | Grace Hanson ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
comedy
ⓘ
dramedy ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Brianna Hanson
ⓘ
Mallory Hanson ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Frankie Bergstein
ⓘ
linked to:
Frances "Frankie" Bergstein
Grace Hanson ⓘ Sol Bergstein ⓘ |
| hasPartner | Sol Bergstein ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Brianna Hanson
ⓘ
Grace Hanson ⓘ Mallory Hanson ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main character ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coming out as gay late in life
ⓘ
leaving his wife for his male law partner ⓘ |
| occupation |
divorce lawyer
ⓘ
retired lawyer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Martin Sheen ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Sol Bergstein ⓘ |
| worksAt | law firm with Sol Bergstein ⓘ |
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 Hanson Description of subject: Robert Hanson is a central character in the comedy series "Grace and Frankie," portrayed as a retired divorce lawyer whose coming out as gay and subsequent relationship with his law partner upends both their families’ lives.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.