Robert Graysmith
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Robert Graysmith is an American true-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his investigative books on the Zodiac Killer case.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Graysmith canonical | 4 |
| Robert Graysmith in Zodiac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3341842 — 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 Graysmith Context triple: [Zodiac, basedOnAuthor, Robert Graysmith]
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A.
Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi was an American prosecutor and true-crime author best known for successfully prosecuting Charles Manson and writing the book "Helter Skelter."
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B.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
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C.
Clifford Irving
Clifford Irving was an American author best known for his infamous 1970s literary hoax involving a fabricated autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.
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D.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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E.
Scott Hornbacher
Scott Hornbacher is an American television producer and director best known for his work on the critically acclaimed series "Mad Men."
- 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 Graysmith Target entity description: Robert Graysmith is an American true-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his investigative books on the Zodiac Killer case.
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A.
Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi was an American prosecutor and true-crime author best known for successfully prosecuting Charles Manson and writing the book "Helter Skelter."
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B.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
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C.
Clifford Irving
Clifford Irving was an American author best known for his infamous 1970s literary hoax involving a fabricated autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.
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D.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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E.
Scott Hornbacher
Scott Hornbacher is an American television producer and director best known for his work on the critically acclaimed series "Mad Men."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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 Graysmith Description of subject: Robert Graysmith is an American true-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his investigative books on the Zodiac Killer case.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Graysmith