Robert Cole
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Robert Cole is the neurotic, commitment-phobic stand-up comedian protagonist navigating the complexities of love and relationships in Albert Brooks’s film "Modern Romance."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Cole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12782872 — 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 Cole Context triple: [Modern Romance, mainCharacter, Robert Cole]
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A.
Ron Coley
Ron Coley is known as the husband of academic leader and university president Soraya M. Coley.
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B.
Malcolm Collier
Malcolm Collier is an anthropologist and visual researcher known for his collaborative work with John Collier Jr. on photographic methods in social research.
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C.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
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D.
Martin Colbert
Martin Colbert is a fictional character in Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," involved in the complex social and moral dynamics of antebellum Virginia.
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E.
Bob Cole
Bob Cole was an influential African-American composer, lyricist, and vaudeville performer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping to elevate Black musical theater on the American stage.
- 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 Cole Target entity description: Robert Cole is the neurotic, commitment-phobic stand-up comedian protagonist navigating the complexities of love and relationships in Albert Brooks’s film "Modern Romance."
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A.
Ron Coley
Ron Coley is known as the husband of academic leader and university president Soraya M. Coley.
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B.
Malcolm Collier
Malcolm Collier is an anthropologist and visual researcher known for his collaborative work with John Collier Jr. on photographic methods in social research.
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C.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
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D.
Martin Colbert
Martin Colbert is a fictional character in Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," involved in the complex social and moral dynamics of antebellum Virginia.
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E.
Bob Cole
Bob Cole was an influential African-American composer, lyricist, and vaudeville performer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping to elevate Black musical theater on the American stage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Modern Romance ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Albert Brooks ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
fear of commitment
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insecurity in relationships ⓘ jealousy ⓘ self-sabotage in love ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Modern Romance ⓘ |
| genreContext |
comedy
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romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
commitment-phobic
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neurotic ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipTheme | on-again, off-again romance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
love
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Albert Brooks ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Modern Romance ⓘ |
| workBasedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1981 ⓘ |
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 Cole Description of subject: Robert Cole is the neurotic, commitment-phobic stand-up comedian protagonist navigating the complexities of love and relationships in Albert Brooks’s film "Modern Romance."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.