Roger Smith
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Roger Smith was an American actor and talent manager best known for starring in the TV series "77 Sunset Strip" and later managing the career of his wife, Ann-Margret.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10496385 — 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: Roger Smith Context triple: [Ann-Margret, spouse, Roger Smith]
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A.
James D. Thompson
James D. Thompson is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of Environmental Tectonics Corporation, a company specializing in simulation, training, and environmental control technologies.
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B.
Peter Baer Galvin
Peter Baer Galvin is a computer scientist and author best known for co-authoring influential textbooks on operating systems and related computer science topics.
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C.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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D.
Robert Daley
Robert Daley is best known as the father of British Olympic diver Tom Daley.
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E.
Robert Daley
Robert Daley is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Clint Eastwood on numerous movies throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Roger Smith Target entity description: Roger Smith was an American actor and talent manager best known for starring in the TV series "77 Sunset Strip" and later managing the career of his wife, Ann-Margret.
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A.
James D. Thompson
James D. Thompson is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of Environmental Tectonics Corporation, a company specializing in simulation, training, and environmental control technologies.
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B.
Peter Baer Galvin
Peter Baer Galvin is a computer scientist and author best known for co-authoring influential textbooks on operating systems and related computer science topics.
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C.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
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D.
Robert Daley
Robert Daley is best known as the father of British Olympic diver Tom Daley.
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E.
Robert Daley
Robert Daley is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Clint Eastwood on numerous movies throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
talent manager ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Parkinson's disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-12-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-06-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Warner Bros. Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTimeOfSpouseVictoriaShawMarriage | 1965 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| givenName | Roger ⓘ |
| hasHealthCondition | myasthenia gravis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | Beverly Hills, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedCareerOf | Ann-Margret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Screen Actors Guild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Roger Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
managing Ann-Margret's career
ⓘ
starring in 77 Sunset Strip ⓘ |
| notableRole | Jeff Spencer in 77 Sunset Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | 77 Sunset Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ talent manager ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Gate, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sherman Oaks, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ann-Margret
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Victoria Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfSpouseAnn-MargretMarriage | 1967 ⓘ |
| startTimeOfSpouseVictoriaShawMarriage | 1956 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
77 Sunset Strip
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Auntie Mame NERFINISHED ⓘ Man of a Thousand Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ Mister Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–1970s ⓘ |
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: Roger Smith Description of subject: Roger Smith was an American actor and talent manager best known for starring in the TV series "77 Sunset Strip" and later managing the career of his wife, Ann-Margret.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.