Bob Hastings
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Bob Hastings was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his work in radio, television, and animation, including voicing Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Hastings canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391258 — 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: Bob Hastings Context triple: [Batman: The Animated Series, voiceActorOfCommissionerGordon, Bob Hastings]
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A.
Jim Harris
Jim Harris is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Jim Harris
Jim Harris is a technology executive best known as one of the founders of the computer company Compaq.
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C.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
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D.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
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E.
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Hastings was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as a partner in the influential firm Carrère and Hastings, which designed many notable Beaux-Arts buildings.
- 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: Bob Hastings Target entity description: Bob Hastings was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his work in radio, television, and animation, including voicing Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.
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A.
Jim Harris
Jim Harris is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Jim Harris
Jim Harris is a technology executive best known as one of the founders of the computer company Compaq.
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C.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an Irish hairdresser best known as the long-term partner of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury during the final years of Mercury’s life.
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D.
Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton was an American actor best known for his lanky, affable screen presence in 1960s comedies and for playing the title role in the TV series "Ellery Queen."
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E.
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Hastings was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as a partner in the influential firm Carrère and Hastings, which designed many notable Beaux-Arts buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
All in the Family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
General Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Acres NERFINISHED ⓘ McHale's Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Munsters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Francis Hastings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-06-30 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hastings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor | work in radio, television, and animation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| name | Bob Hastings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Commissioner James Gordon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Batman: The Animated Series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McHale's Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ radio actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Joan Rice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voicedCharacter | Commissioner James Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voicedIn |
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
NERFINISHED
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Batman: The Animated Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Superman: The Animated Series NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Batman Adventures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Bob Hastings Description of subject: Bob Hastings was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his work in radio, television, and animation, including voicing Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.