Robert Romanus
E858015
Robert Romanus is an American actor best known for his role as ticket scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Romanus canonical | 4 |
| Bob Romanus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355342 — 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 Romanus Context triple: [Fast Times at Ridgemont High, stars, Robert Romanus]
-
A.
Fred Tatasciore
Fred Tatasciore is an American voice actor known for his deep, powerful vocal performances in numerous animated series, films, and video games, often portraying larger-than-life or monstrous characters.
-
B.
Frank Romano
Frank Romano is a music producer and songwriter known for his work on contemporary R&B and pop tracks, including the song "Just a Dream."
-
C.
Frank Romano
Frank Romano is an author best known for writing the book "Just a Dream."
-
D.
William D'Elia
William D'Elia is an American mobster who became a powerful boss in the Bufalino crime family and a significant figure in organized crime in Pennsylvania.
-
E.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
- 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 Romanus Target entity description: Robert Romanus is an American actor best known for his role as ticket scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
-
A.
Fred Tatasciore
Fred Tatasciore is an American voice actor known for his deep, powerful vocal performances in numerous animated series, films, and video games, often portraying larger-than-life or monstrous characters.
-
B.
Frank Romano
Frank Romano is an author best known for writing the book "Just a Dream."
-
C.
Frank Romano
Frank Romano is a music producer and songwriter known for his work on contemporary R&B and pop tracks, including the song "Just a Dream."
-
D.
William D'Elia
William D'Elia is an American mobster who became a powerful boss in the Bufalino crime family and a significant figure in organized crime in Pennsylvania.
-
E.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
21 Jump Street
ⓘ
linked to:
21 Jump Street (TV series)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ The Facts of Life ⓘ The Young and the Restless ⓘ Valley Girl ⓘ Will & Grace ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-07-17 ⓘ |
| familyName | Romanus ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | teen comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Greek American ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Richard Romanus ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Romanus ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of ticket scalper Mike Damone in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| notableWork | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musician ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| portrayed | Mike Damone ⓘ |
| role | Mike Damone ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Richard Romanus ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Amy Heckerling
ⓘ
Jennifer Jason Leigh ⓘ Judge Reinhold ⓘ Sean Penn ⓘ |
| 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: Robert Romanus Description of subject: Robert Romanus is an American actor best known for his role as ticket scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mike Damone – Robert Romanus
subject linked to:
Mike Damone – Robert Romanus
linked to: Robert Romanus