Robert Tatum
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Robert Tatum was an American mountaineer best known as a member of the first successful expedition to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Tatum canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T732270 — 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 Tatum Context triple: [Denali, firstAscentBy, Robert Tatum]
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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C.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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D.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
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E.
Lonnie E. Smith
Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
- 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 Tatum Target entity description: Robert Tatum was an American mountaineer best known as a member of the first successful expedition to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913.
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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C.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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D.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
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E.
Lonnie E. Smith
Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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 Tatum Description of subject: Robert Tatum was an American mountaineer best known as a member of the first successful expedition to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.