Robert Whitman
E263407
Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Whitman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2063305 — 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 Whitman Context triple: [Marina von Neumann Whitman, spouse, Robert Whitman]
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A.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
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B.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Donald Goldsmith
Donald Goldsmith is an American astronomer, science writer, and popularizer of cosmology known for making complex astrophysical concepts accessible to general audiences.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
- 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 Whitman Target entity description: Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
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A.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
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B.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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C.
Donald Goldsmith
Donald Goldsmith is an American astronomer, science writer, and popularizer of cosmology known for making complex astrophysical concepts accessible to general audiences.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Whitman ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| spouse | Marina von Neumann Whitman ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Marina von Neumann Whitman ⓘ |
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 Whitman Description of subject: Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.