Robert Newman
E392372
Robert Newman is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Josh Lewis on the soap opera "Guiding Light."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Newman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3837380 — 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 Newman Context triple: [Guiding Light, notableCastMember, Robert Newman]
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A.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential technology and research firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).
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B.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was a British impresario best known for initiating the orchestral concert series that evolved into the BBC Proms.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
David A. Newman
David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
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E.
Paul Wernick
Paul Wernick is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit Deadpool films and other major Hollywood action-comedies.
- 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 Newman Target entity description: Robert Newman is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Josh Lewis on the soap opera "Guiding Light."
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A.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the influential technology and research firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN).
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B.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman was a British impresario best known for initiating the orchestral concert series that evolved into the BBC Proms.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
David A. Newman
David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
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E.
Paul Wernick
Paul Wernick is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit Deadpool films and other major Hollywood action-comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | American television industry ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Josh Lewis ⓘ |
| familyName | Newman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
soap opera acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre | soap opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama ⓘ |
| hasWorkIn | daytime television ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Josh Lewis on Guiding Light ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| name | Robert Newman ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableRole | Josh Lewis ⓘ |
| notableWork | Guiding Light ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Guiding Light ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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 Newman Description of subject: Robert Newman is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Josh Lewis on the soap opera "Guiding Light."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.