Eric Roberts
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Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Roberts canonical | 24 |
| Eric Roberts (audio) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566194 — 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: Eric Roberts Context triple: [The Master, portrayedBy, Eric Roberts]
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A.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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D.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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E.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
- 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: Eric Roberts Target entity description: Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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A.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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D.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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E.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe nomination
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Globe Award nomination
Theatre World Award ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight
ⓘ
Doctor Who: The Movie ⓘ
surface form:
the Master in Doctor Who (1996 TV movie)
|
| child | Emma Roberts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-04-18 ⓘ |
| familyName | Roberts ⓘ |
| genre |
action films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ thriller films ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
science fiction television ⓘ superhero films ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | American independent cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Eric Roberts self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doctor Who: The Movie
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who (1996 TV movie)
King of the Gypsies ⓘ Runaway Train ⓘ Star 80 ⓘ The Dark Knight ⓘ The Pope of Greenwich Village ⓘ direct-to-video films ⓘ television films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Doctor Who
ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Who franchise
|
| placeOfBirth |
Biloxi
ⓘ
surface form:
Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
|
| portrayed |
Time Lord
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Lord known as the Master
|
| relative |
Emma Roberts
ⓘ
Julia Roberts ⓘ Lisa Roberts Gillan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Eliza Roberts ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Eric Roberts Description of subject: Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Expendables (2010 film)
subject surface form:
Sal Maroni (The Dark Knight)
subject surface form:
The Master (Doctor Who)
subject surface form:
The Master (Doctor Who)
this entity surface form:
Eric Roberts (audio)