Robert Marasco
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Robert Marasco was an American playwright and novelist best known for his 1973 horror novel "Burnt Offerings," which was later adapted into a film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Marasco canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913263 — 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 Marasco Context triple: [Burnt Offerings, authorOfSourceWork, Robert Marasco]
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A.
Charles Camarda
Charles Camarda is a NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer best known for flying on the Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 “Return to Flight” mission following the Columbia disaster.
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B.
Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
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C.
John Fusco
John Fusco is an American screenwriter and producer best known for writing Western-themed films such as "Young Guns" and creating the Netflix series "Marco Polo."
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D.
Henry Mucci
Henry Mucci was a highly decorated U.S. Army Ranger officer in World War II, best known for leading the daring rescue of Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines.
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E.
Tony D'Amato
Tony D'Amato is the hard-driving, old-school head coach of the fictional Miami Sharks football team in the film "Any Given Sunday," portrayed by Al Pacino.
- 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 Marasco Target entity description: Robert Marasco was an American playwright and novelist best known for his 1973 horror novel "Burnt Offerings," which was later adapted into a film.
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A.
Charles Camarda
Charles Camarda is a NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer best known for flying on the Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 “Return to Flight” mission following the Columbia disaster.
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B.
Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
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C.
John Fusco
John Fusco is an American screenwriter and producer best known for writing Western-themed films such as "Young Guns" and creating the Netflix series "Marco Polo."
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D.
Henry Mucci
Henry Mucci was a highly decorated U.S. Army Ranger officer in World War II, best known for leading the daring rescue of Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines.
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E.
Tony D'Amato
Tony D'Amato is the hard-driving, old-school head coach of the fictional Miami Sharks football team in the film "Any Given Sunday," portrayed by Al Pacino.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th century literature ⓘ |
| author | Robert Marasco ⓘ |
| basedOn | Burnt Offerings ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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horror fiction ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| language |
English
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English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | authoring the horror novel "Burnt Offerings" ⓘ |
| notableGenre | supernatural horror ⓘ |
| notableWork | Burnt Offerings ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| workAdaptedInto |
Burnt Offerings (1976 film)
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linked to:
Burnt Offerings
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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 Marasco Description of subject: Robert Marasco was an American playwright and novelist best known for his 1973 horror novel "Burnt Offerings," which was later adapted into a film.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.