Jason Robards Sr.
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Jason Robards Sr. was an American stage and film actor of the early 20th century, known for his character roles in silent and early sound-era movies and as the father of acclaimed actor Jason Robards Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jason Robards Sr. canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8607561 — 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: Jason Robards Sr. Context triple: [The Fighting Marines, stars, Jason Robards Sr.]
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A.
Jason Robards
Jason Robards was an acclaimed American stage and film actor renowned for his powerful performances in Eugene O’Neill plays and his Oscar-winning supporting roles in films such as "All the President’s Men" and "Julia."
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B.
Brock Peters
Brock Peters was an American actor renowned for his powerful performances in films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Star Trek," as well as his distinctive deep voice in voice-over work.
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C.
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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D.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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E.
Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
- 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: Jason Robards Sr. Target entity description: Jason Robards Sr. was an American stage and film actor of the early 20th century, known for his character roles in silent and early sound-era movies and as the father of acclaimed actor Jason Robards Jr.
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A.
Jason Robards
Jason Robards was an acclaimed American stage and film actor renowned for his powerful performances in Eugene O’Neill plays and his Oscar-winning supporting roles in films such as "All the President’s Men" and "Julia."
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B.
Brock Peters
Brock Peters was an American actor renowned for his powerful performances in films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Star Trek," as well as his distinctive deep voice in voice-over work.
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C.
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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D.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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E.
Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| child |
Jason Robards Jr.
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linked to:
Jason Robards
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Robards ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
early sound film
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silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Jason Robards Jr.
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linked to:
Jason Robards
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jason Robards Sr. ⓘ |
| notability | American stage and film actor of the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of Jason Robards Jr.
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character roles in early sound-era films ⓘ character roles in silent films ⓘ |
| notableRoleType | character actor ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jason Robards Sr. Description of subject: Jason Robards Sr. was an American stage and film actor of the early 20th century, known for his character roles in silent and early sound-era movies and as the father of acclaimed actor Jason Robards Jr.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.