Robert MacNaughton
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Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert MacNaughton canonical | 4 |
| Robert McNaughton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2461936 — 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 MacNaughton Context triple: [E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, stars, Robert MacNaughton]
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A.
Roy Fedden
Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Arnold Machin
Arnold Machin was a British artist and sculptor best known for designing the iconic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II used on postage stamps and coins throughout the Commonwealth.
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C.
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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D.
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
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E.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
- 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 MacNaughton Target entity description: Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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A.
Roy Fedden
Roy Fedden was a prominent British aircraft engine designer and engineer, best known for his influential work on piston engines that powered many Royal Air Force aircraft in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Arnold Machin
Arnold Machin was a British artist and sculptor best known for designing the iconic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II used on postage stamps and coins throughout the Commonwealth.
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C.
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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D.
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
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E.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacNaughton
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linked to:
McNaughton
|
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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performing arts ⓘ television ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkActedIn | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
White American
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linked to:
European American
|
| hasNotableRole | Michael (Elliott’s older brother) in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | articles about the cast of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert MacNaughton ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying the older brother Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| notableWork | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Michael ⓘ |
| playedCharacterIn | Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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 MacNaughton Description of subject: Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert MacNaughton
subject linked to:
Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
subject linked to:
Michael (Elliott’s older brother) in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial