Dr. Robert Elliott
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Dr. Robert Elliott is the troubled psychiatrist and central figure in Brian De Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. Robert Elliott canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493723 — 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: Dr. Robert Elliott Context triple: [Dressed to Kill, mainCharacter, Dr. Robert Elliott]
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A.
Dr. Robert Morgan
Dr. Robert Morgan is the isolated, plague-immune protagonist who struggles to survive and retain his sanity in the post-apocalyptic horror story "The Last Man on Earth."
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B.
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler is a Soviet spy posing as an American scientist who secretly aids the captive Amphibian Man in the film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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D.
Dr. Robert Doback
Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
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E.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
- 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: Dr. Robert Elliott Target entity description: Dr. Robert Elliott is the troubled psychiatrist and central figure in Brian De Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
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A.
Dr. Robert Morgan
Dr. Robert Morgan is the isolated, plague-immune protagonist who struggles to survive and retain his sanity in the post-apocalyptic horror story "The Last Man on Earth."
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B.
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler is a Soviet spy posing as an American scientist who secretly aids the captive Amphibian Man in the film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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D.
Dr. Robert Doback
Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
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E.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
psychiatrist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dressed to Kill ⓘ |
| characterType | troubled psychiatrist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Brian De Palma ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
Dressed to Kill (1980 film)
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linked to:
Dressed to Kill
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Dressed to Kill (film universe)
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linked to:
Dressed to Kill
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
giallo-influenced thriller
ⓘ
horror ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasPsychologicalTheme |
identity
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repression ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| isFictional | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
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central character ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| partOf | Brian De Palma filmography ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Caine ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1980 ⓘ |
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: Dr. Robert Elliott Description of subject: Dr. Robert Elliott is the troubled psychiatrist and central figure in Brian De Palma’s 1980 psychological thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.