Robert Alda
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Robert Alda was an American actor and singer, and the father of actor Alan Alda, known for his work in film, theater, and television from the 1940s onward.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Alda canonical | 22 |
| Bob Alda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928556 — 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 Alda Context triple: [The Beast with Five Fingers, starring, Robert Alda]
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Ronald N. Perlman
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor best known for his distinctive deep voice and leading roles in works such as the "Hellboy" films and the television series "Beauty and the Beast."
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Richard H. Kline
Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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C.
Arthur H. Gorson
Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
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D.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Robert Richardson
Robert Richardson is an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, and Martin Scorsese.
- 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 Alda Target entity description: Robert Alda was an American actor and singer, and the father of actor Alan Alda, known for his work in film, theater, and television from the 1940s onward.
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A.
Ronald N. Perlman
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor best known for his distinctive deep voice and leading roles in works such as the "Hellboy" films and the television series "Beauty and the Beast."
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B.
Richard H. Kline
Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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C.
Arthur H. Gorson
Arthur H. Gorson is a film and music producer known for his work on projects such as the horror film "Cronos" and for collaborating with notable directors and musicians.
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D.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Robert Richardson
Robert Richardson is an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, and Martin Scorsese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Alda Description of subject: Robert Alda was an American actor and singer, and the father of actor Alan Alda, known for his work in film, theater, and television from the 1940s onward.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Alda
subject linked to:
Flora Marino
subject linked to:
Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls"