Robert Gordon
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Robert Gordon was an American screenwriter best known for writing the cult science-fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Gordon canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11171196 — 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 Gordon Context triple: [Galaxy Quest, screenwriter, Robert Gordon]
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A.
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant and philanthropist whose legacy in education led to the founding of the institution that became Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
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B.
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon is a music industry figure best known for co-founding the influential British electronic music label Warp Records.
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C.
Bob Gordon
Bob Gordon is a film producer best known for his work on the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!".
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D.
Richard E. Stearns
Richard E. Stearns is an American computer scientist best known for co-developing the theory of computational complexity, including the foundational time hierarchy theorem.
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E.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
- 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 Gordon Target entity description: Robert Gordon was an American screenwriter best known for writing the cult science-fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
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A.
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant and philanthropist whose legacy in education led to the founding of the institution that became Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
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B.
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon is a music industry figure best known for co-founding the influential British electronic music label Warp Records.
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C.
Bob Gordon
Bob Gordon is a film producer best known for his work on the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!".
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D.
Richard E. Stearns
Richard E. Stearns is an American computer scientist best known for co-developing the theory of computational complexity, including the foundational time hierarchy theorem.
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E.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | American film studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction comedy ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film screenplays ⓘ |
| hasWritingStyle |
comedy
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science fiction ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American popular culture ⓘ |
| knownFor | writing the screenplay for Galaxy Quest ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | cult film writer ⓘ |
| notableFor | contribution to science fiction comedy films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Galaxy Quest ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
| wrote | Galaxy Quest ⓘ |
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 Gordon Description of subject: Robert Gordon was an American screenwriter best known for writing the cult science-fiction comedy film "Galaxy Quest."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.