Bob Richman
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Bob Richman is an American cinematographer best known for his work on acclaimed documentaries, including the Oscar-winning climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Richman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2982216 — 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: Bob Richman Context triple: [An Inconvenient Truth, cinematographyBy, Bob Richman]
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A.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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B.
Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe was an American actor and character performer known for memorable roles in classic films such as "Gunga Din," "The Asphalt Jungle," and "Ben-Hur."
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C.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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D.
Jay Sugarman
Jay Sugarman is an American businessman and real estate investor best known as the owner and chairman of Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.
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E.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
- 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: Bob Richman Target entity description: Bob Richman is an American cinematographer best known for his work on acclaimed documentaries, including the Oscar-winning climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth."
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A.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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B.
Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe was an American actor and character performer known for memorable roles in classic films such as "Gunga Din," "The Asphalt Jungle," and "Ben-Hur."
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C.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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D.
Jay Sugarman
Jay Sugarman is an American businessman and real estate investor best known as the owner and chairman of Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.
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E.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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documentary cinematographer ⓘ documentary film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
United States film industry
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linked to:
American cinema
film industry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (as part of film crew for An Inconvenient Truth) ⓘ
linked to:
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinematography
ⓘ
documentary filmmaking ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | documentary film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cinematography for An Inconvenient Truth
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work on acclaimed documentary films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | climate change ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | cinematography on Oscar-winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth ⓘ |
| notableWork | An Inconvenient Truth ⓘ |
| occupation |
camera operator
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cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | An Inconvenient Truth ⓘ |
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: Bob Richman Description of subject: Bob Richman is an American cinematographer best known for his work on acclaimed documentaries, including the Oscar-winning climate change film "An Inconvenient Truth."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.