Bob Mattey
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Bob Mattey was a renowned special effects artist best known for designing and building mechanical creatures for films, including the iconic shark in "Jaws."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Mattey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5136884 — 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 Mattey Context triple: [Bruce the shark, constructedBy, Bob Mattey]
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A.
Grant Matthews
Grant Matthews is the ambitious, idealistic businessman-turned-presidential-candidate who serves as the central figure in the political drama film "State of the Union."
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B.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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C.
Matt O’Brien
Matt O’Brien is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock’s breakthrough album "Devil Without a Cause."
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D.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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E.
Mat Rogers
Mat Rogers is an Australian former dual-code rugby international who played both rugby league and rugby union at elite levels, including representing Australia and starring in the NRL.
- 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 Mattey Target entity description: Bob Mattey was a renowned special effects artist best known for designing and building mechanical creatures for films, including the iconic shark in "Jaws."
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A.
Grant Matthews
Grant Matthews is the ambitious, idealistic businessman-turned-presidential-candidate who serves as the central figure in the political drama film "State of the Union."
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B.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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C.
Matt O’Brien
Matt O’Brien is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock’s breakthrough album "Devil Without a Cause."
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D.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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E.
Mat Rogers
Mat Rogers is an Australian former dual-code rugby international who played both rugby league and rugby union at elite levels, including representing Australia and starring in the NRL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mechanical effects designer
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special effects artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
mechanical effects
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special effects ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building mechanical creatures for films
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building the mechanical shark in the film "Jaws" ⓘ designing mechanical creatures for films ⓘ designing the mechanical shark in the film "Jaws" ⓘ |
| notability | renowned in the film industry for special effects ⓘ |
| notableWork | mechanical shark for "Jaws" ⓘ |
| occupation |
mechanical effects designer
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special effects artist ⓘ |
| workedOn |
film "Jaws"
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linked to:
Jaws
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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: Bob Mattey Description of subject: Bob Mattey was a renowned special effects artist best known for designing and building mechanical creatures for films, including the iconic shark in "Jaws."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.