Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Tender Mercies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Duvall canonical | 120 |
| Robert Selden Duvall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804278 — 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 Duvall Context triple: [THX 1138, starring, Robert Duvall]
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A.
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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B.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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C.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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D.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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E.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
- 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 Duvall Target entity description: Robert Duvall is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Tender Mercies.
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A.
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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B.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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C.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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D.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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E.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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 Duvall Description of subject: Robert Duvall is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile performances in films such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Tender Mercies.
Referenced by (121)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
subject linked to:
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linked to: Robert Duvall