Robert MacDougal
E1039735
Robert MacDougal is a master art thief and the suave, cunning protagonist portrayed by Sean Connery in the heist thriller film "Entrapment."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert MacDougal canonical | 3 |
| Robert "Mac" MacDougal | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13071977 — 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 MacDougal Context triple: [Entrapment, screenCharacter, Robert MacDougal]
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A.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Donald MacRae
Donald MacRae is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname.
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D.
Robert MacLean
Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
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E.
John MacDougall
John MacDougall was a Scottish Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament representing a constituency including Glenrothes.
- 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 MacDougal Target entity description: Robert MacDougal is a master art thief and the suave, cunning protagonist portrayed by Sean Connery in the heist thriller film "Entrapment."
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A.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Donald MacRae
Donald MacRae is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacRae surname.
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D.
Robert MacLean
Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
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E.
John MacDougall
John MacDougall was a Scottish Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament representing a constituency including Glenrothes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Entrapment ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom (implied Scottish/British character) ⓘ |
| describedAs |
cunning
ⓘ
suave ⓘ |
| genre | heist film character ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| occupation |
art thief
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master thief ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sean Connery ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of the film Entrapment ⓘ |
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 MacDougal Description of subject: Robert MacDougal is a master art thief and the suave, cunning protagonist portrayed by Sean Connery in the heist thriller film "Entrapment."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Virginia Gin Baker
linked to: Robert MacDougal
subject linked to:
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Virginia Gin Baker
linked to: Robert MacDougal