Robert Forster
E69689
Robert Forster was an American actor best known for his Oscar-nominated performance in Quentin Tarantino’s crime film "Jackie Brown" and his long career in film and television.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Forster canonical | 16 |
| Robert Wallace Forster Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T550754 — 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 Forster Context triple: [Jackie Brown, stars, Robert Forster]
-
A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
-
B.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
-
C.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
-
D.
Alan Aldridge
Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
-
E.
Bill Carmody
Bill Carmody is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure at Princeton, where he successfully implemented and popularized the Princeton offense.
- 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 Forster Target entity description: Robert Forster was an American actor best known for his Oscar-nominated performance in Quentin Tarantino’s crime film "Jackie Brown" and his long career in film and television.
-
A.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
-
B.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
-
C.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
-
D.
Alan Aldridge
Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
-
E.
Bill Carmody
Bill Carmody is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure at Princeton, where he successfully implemented and popularized the Princeton offense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Forster Description of subject: Robert Forster was an American actor best known for his Oscar-nominated performance in Quentin Tarantino’s crime film "Jackie Brown" and his long career in film and television.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Wallace Forster Jr.
subject surface form:
Max Cherry