Robert Wilson
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Robert Wilson is the terrified airline passenger in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who alone sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361557 — 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 Wilson Context triple: [Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, mainCharacter, Robert Wilson]
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A.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American physicist best known for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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B.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an influential American avant-garde theater director and visual artist known for his highly stylized, experimental stage productions and collaborations with prominent composers and performers.
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C.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
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D.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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E.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
- 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 Wilson Target entity description: Robert Wilson is the terrified airline passenger in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who alone sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
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A.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American physicist best known for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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B.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an influential American avant-garde theater director and visual artist known for his highly stylized, experimental stage productions and collaborations with prominent composers and performers.
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C.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
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D.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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E.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| accompaniedBy | Julia Wilson ⓘ |
| airlinePassengerStatus | terrified passenger ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Twilight Zone
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| appearsInEpisode | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ |
| appearsInSeriesFormat | anthology television series ⓘ |
| appearsInSeriesSeason |
The Twilight Zone season 5
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| basedOnWork |
short story Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
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linked to:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
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| conflictWith | gremlin ⓘ |
| createdBy | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
iconic Twilight Zone character
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inspired later parodies and homages ⓘ |
| episodeGenre |
psychological horror
ⓘ
supernatural thriller ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| flightType | commercial flight ⓘ |
| hasCondition | nervous breakdown history ⓘ |
| hasPhobia | fear of flying ⓘ |
| laterPortrayals |
similar character in 2002 Twilight Zone remake segment
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similar character in Twilight Zone 1983 film segment ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | airplane ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of episode ⓘ |
| notableScene |
being restrained and sedated on plane
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looking out airplane window at gremlin ⓘ |
| notBelievedBy |
flight crew
ⓘ
his wife ⓘ other passengers ⓘ |
| observes |
damage to airplane wing
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gremlin sabotaging airplane wing ⓘ |
| occupation | salesman ⓘ |
| onlyWitnessOf | gremlin on airplane wing ⓘ |
| perceives | gremlin on airplane wing ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William Shatner ⓘ |
| recentHistory | released from sanitarium ⓘ |
| spouse | Julia Wilson ⓘ |
| takesAction |
fires gun at gremlin
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opens emergency exit in flight ⓘ steals revolver from police officer ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
isolation
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mental illness stigma ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| universe |
The Twilight Zone
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| warns |
airline staff
ⓘ
flight crew ⓘ his wife ⓘ |
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 Wilson Description of subject: Robert Wilson is the terrified airline passenger in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," who alone sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane's wing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.