Robert Wilder
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Robert Wilder was an American novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own works and contributing to notable mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Wilder canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326280 — 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 Wilder Context triple: [The Big Country, screenwriter, Robert Wilder]
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A.
Peter A. Wilderer
Peter A. Wilderer was a renowned German environmental engineer and pioneer in sustainable water and wastewater management, recognized globally for his contributions to water science and technology.
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B.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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C.
Robert Maclay Widney
Robert Maclay Widney was a 19th-century American judge, civic leader, and educator best known for spearheading the creation of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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D.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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E.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after 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 Wilder Target entity description: Robert Wilder was an American novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own works and contributing to notable mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
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A.
Peter A. Wilderer
Peter A. Wilderer was a renowned German environmental engineer and pioneer in sustainable water and wastewater management, recognized globally for his contributions to water science and technology.
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B.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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C.
Robert Maclay Widney
Robert Maclay Widney was a 19th-century American judge, civic leader, and educator best known for spearheading the creation of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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D.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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E.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
novels
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screenplays ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adapting his own novels for film
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contributing to mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flamingo Road
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The Sun Is My Undoing ⓘ Wind from the Carolinas ⓘ Written on the Wind ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| wrote |
Flamingo Road
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The Sun Is My Undoing ⓘ Wind from the Carolinas ⓘ Written on the Wind ⓘ |
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 Wilder Description of subject: Robert Wilder was an American novelist and screenwriter known for adapting his own works and contributing to notable mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.