Robert Gottlieb
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Robert Gottlieb was a renowned American editor and publisher best known for his influential leadership at Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker and for shaping the work of many major 20th-century authors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Gottlieb canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11566422 — 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 Gottlieb Context triple: [Turn Every Page, subject, Robert Gottlieb]
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A.
Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
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B.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author known for his innovative work in interactive museum and exhibition design.
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C.
Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
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D.
Michael Korda
Michael Korda is a British-born American editor and writer best known for his long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and for his popular biographies and memoirs.
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E.
André Schiffrin
André Schiffrin was a prominent French-American publisher and intellectual known for his influential leadership at Pantheon Books and his critiques of corporate control in the publishing industry.
- 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 Gottlieb Target entity description: Robert Gottlieb was a renowned American editor and publisher best known for his influential leadership at Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker and for shaping the work of many major 20th-century authors.
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A.
Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
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B.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author known for his innovative work in interactive museum and exhibition design.
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C.
Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
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D.
Michael Korda
Michael Korda is a British-born American editor and writer best known for his long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and for his popular biographies and memoirs.
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E.
André Schiffrin
André Schiffrin was a prominent French-American publisher and intellectual known for his influential leadership at Pantheon Books and his critiques of corporate control in the publishing industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book editor
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human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Critics Circle Award (as editor, associated with winning works)
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linked to:
National Book Critics Circle Award
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
Alfred A. Knopf
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Simon & Schuster ⓘ The New Yorker ⓘ |
| familyName | Gottlieb ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biography
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literary editing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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literary criticism ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary American literature
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late 20th-century publishing practices ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Gottlieb ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editing "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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editing major 20th-century authors ⓘ editing works by Robert A. Caro ⓘ influence on American publishing ⓘ leadership at Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ leadership at The New Yorker ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Avid Reader
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Garbo ⓘ Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens ⓘ Lives and Letters ⓘ Reading Dance ⓘ Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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publisher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf
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editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster ⓘ editor-in-chief of The New Yorker ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
novels by John Cheever
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novels by John le Carré ⓘ novels by Joseph Heller ⓘ novels by Robert Caro ⓘ novels by Toni Morrison ⓘ |
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 Gottlieb Description of subject: Robert Gottlieb was a renowned American editor and publisher best known for his influential leadership at Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker and for shaping the work of many major 20th-century authors.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
documentary film "Turn Every Page"
subject linked to:
documentary film "Turn Every Page"