Robert M. Weitman
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Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert M. Weitman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859932 — 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 M. Weitman Context triple: [The Anderson Tapes, producer, Robert M. Weitman]
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A.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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B.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
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C.
Lawrence Hauben
Lawrence Hauben was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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D.
Barry W. Blaustein
Barry W. Blaustein is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing hit Eddie Murphy comedies such as "Coming to America" and "The Nutty Professor" films.
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E.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
- 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 M. Weitman Target entity description: Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
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A.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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B.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
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C.
Lawrence Hauben
Lawrence Hauben was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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D.
Barry W. Blaustein
Barry W. Blaustein is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing hit Eddie Murphy comedies such as "Coming to America" and "The Nutty Professor" films.
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E.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| era |
Classical Hollywood era
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
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| fieldOfWork |
Hollywood studio system
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cinema ⓘ motion pictures ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | genre films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing American studio feature films ⓘ |
| notableRole | overseeing production of studio features ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 M. Weitman Description of subject: Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.