Robert David Crane
E772002
Robert David Crane is the son of American actor and "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert David Crane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8963182 — 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 David Crane Context triple: [Bob Crane, child, Robert David Crane]
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A.
Leo Chapman
Leo Chapman was the first husband of prominent American suffragist and peace activist Carrie Chapman Catt.
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B.
Dudley Nichols
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
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C.
John Talman
John Talman was an English antiquary and art collector of the early 18th century, notable for his pioneering role in the study and preservation of historical artifacts and artworks.
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D.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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E.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
- 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 David Crane Target entity description: Robert David Crane is the son of American actor and "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane.
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A.
Leo Chapman
Leo Chapman was the first husband of prominent American suffragist and peace activist Carrie Chapman Catt.
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B.
Dudley Nichols
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
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C.
John Talman
John Talman was an English antiquary and art collector of the early 18th century, notable for his pioneering role in the study and preservation of historical artifacts and artworks.
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D.
Lewis Stevenson
Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
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E.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Bob Crane ⓘ |
| fatherCharacterPlayed | Colonel Robert E. Hogan ⓘ |
| fatherNotableWork | Hogan's Heroes ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | actor ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Bob Crane ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 David Crane Description of subject: Robert David Crane is the son of American actor and "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.