Rob Lowe
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Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rob Lowe canonical | 90 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T179085 — 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 Lowe Context triple: [The West Wing, notableCastMember, Rob Lowe]
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A.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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B.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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E.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
- 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 Lowe Target entity description: Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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A.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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B.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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E.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Lowe Description of subject: Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The West Wing (TV series)
subject linked to:
About Last Night
subject linked to:
About Last Night
subject linked to:
film "Contact"
subject linked to:
Number 2