Robert Joy
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Robert Joy is a Canadian actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his work on the crime drama series CSI: NY.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Joy canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342850 — 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 Joy Context triple: [CSI: NY, portrayedBy, Robert Joy]
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield was an American actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in works like "Sounder" and "The Terminator."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was an American film and television actor known for his versatile roles in classics like "High Noon" and for being the father of actors Jeff and Beau Bridges.
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E.
John Uhler Lemmon III
John Uhler Lemmon III, better known as Jack Lemmon, was an acclaimed American actor celebrated for his versatile performances in classic comedies and dramas such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
- 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 Joy Target entity description: Robert Joy is a Canadian actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his work on the crime drama series CSI: NY.
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield was an American actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in works like "Sounder" and "The Terminator."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was an American film and television actor known for his versatile roles in classics like "High Noon" and for being the father of actors Jeff and Beau Bridges.
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E.
John Uhler Lemmon III
John Uhler Lemmon III, better known as Jack Lemmon, was an acclaimed American actor celebrated for his versatile performances in classic comedies and dramas such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Dora Mavor Moore Award ⓘ |
| characterRole | Dr. Sid Hammerback ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
ⓘ
Memorial University of Newfoundland ⓘ |
| familyName | Joy ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0431510 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Joy ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
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Atlantic City (film) ⓘ CSI: NY ⓘ Desperately Seeking Susan ⓘ
linked to:
Desperately Seeking Susan (film)
Land of the Dead ⓘ Radio Days ⓘ The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Hills Have Eyes
Whole New Thing ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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linked to:
St. John’s
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | CSI: NY ⓘ |
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 Joy Description of subject: Robert Joy is a Canadian actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his work on the crime drama series CSI: NY.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
subject linked to:
Desperately Seeking Susan (film)
subject linked to:
Desperately Seeking Susan (film)