Rob Reiner
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Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rob Reiner canonical | 72 |
| Robert Lee Reiner | 1 |
| Robert Reiner | 1 |
| actor and director Rob Reiner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408654 — 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: Rob Reiner Context triple: [All in the Family, portrayedBy, Rob Reiner]
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A.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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B.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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C.
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman was a Canadian-American film director and producer best known for directing hit comedies such as "Ghostbusters," "Stripes," and "Kindergarten Cop."
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D.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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E.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
- 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: Rob Reiner Target entity description: Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
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A.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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B.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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C.
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman was a Canadian-American film director and producer best known for directing hit comedies such as "Ghostbusters," "Stripes," and "Kindergarten Cop."
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D.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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E.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Rob Reiner Description of subject: Rob Reiner is an American actor and acclaimed film director known for his role as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the sitcom "All in the Family" and for directing classics like "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand by Me," and "When Harry Met Sally."
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.