Jason Robards
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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."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jason Robards canonical | 63 |
| Jason Robards Jr. | 3 |
| Jason Robards III | 1 |
| Jason Robards Sr. | 1 |
| acclaimed American actor Jason Robards | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T654536 — 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 Context triple: [Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, notableMultipleWinner, Jason Robards]
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Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, method-style performances in films such as "On the Waterfront," "In the Heat of the Night," and "The Pawnbroker."
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B.
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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C.
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an acclaimed English-Australian actor best known for his intense screen presence and his posthumous Academy Award-winning performance as the deranged news anchor Howard Beale in the film "Network."
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D.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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E.
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck was an acclaimed American actor renowned for his dignified, morally upright roles in classic films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- 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 Target entity description: 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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A.
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, method-style performances in films such as "On the Waterfront," "In the Heat of the Night," and "The Pawnbroker."
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B.
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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C.
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an acclaimed English-Australian actor best known for his intense screen presence and his posthumous Academy Award-winning performance as the deranged news anchor Howard Beale in the film "Network."
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D.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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E.
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck was an acclaimed American actor renowned for his dignified, morally upright roles in classic films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Description of subject: 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."
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "All the President’s Men"
linked to: Jason Robards
linked to: Jason Robards
subject linked to:
Julia
subject linked to:
Philadelphia
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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hasNotableBurial
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acclaimed American actor Jason Robards
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linked to: Jason Robards
subject linked to:
Bacall family
subject linked to:
Bacall family
subject linked to:
half-brother (Sam Robards)
subject linked to:
Reunion
subject linked to:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)