Robert Deman
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Robert Deman was an actor best known for his role in the 1973 prison escape film "Papillon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Deman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11577039 — 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 Deman Context triple: [Papillon, castMember, Robert Deman]
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A.
Frank Demond
Frank Demond is an American jazz trombonist best known for his long tenure with New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band, where he helped carry forward the city’s traditional jazz style.
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B.
Robert Harron
Robert Harron was a prominent American silent film actor of the 1910s, best known for his frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand-born character actor best known for his roles in 1960s British spy films, including appearances in the Harry Palmer and early James Bond movies.
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D.
Marc Wydell
Marc Wydell is a central character in the animated film "Ron's Gone Wrong," depicted as a socially awkward middle-schooler whose malfunctioning robot friend helps him navigate friendship and growing up in a hyper-connected digital world.
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E.
Steve Hilliard
Steve Hilliard is a character in the romantic comedy film "The Opposite Sex."
- 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 Deman Target entity description: Robert Deman was an actor best known for his role in the 1973 prison escape film "Papillon."
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A.
Frank Demond
Frank Demond is an American jazz trombonist best known for his long tenure with New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band, where he helped carry forward the city’s traditional jazz style.
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B.
Robert Harron
Robert Harron was a prominent American silent film actor of the 1910s, best known for his frequent collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand-born character actor best known for his roles in 1960s British spy films, including appearances in the Harry Palmer and early James Bond movies.
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D.
Marc Wydell
Marc Wydell is a central character in the animated film "Ron's Gone Wrong," depicted as a socially awkward middle-schooler whose malfunctioning robot friend helps him navigate friendship and growing up in a hyper-connected digital world.
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E.
Steve Hilliard
Steve Hilliard is a character in the romantic comedy film "The Opposite Sex."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century cinema ⓘ |
| castMember | Robert Deman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Franklin J. Schaffner ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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film acting ⓘ prison film ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in the 1973 prison escape film "Papillon" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| notableWork | Papillon ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973 ⓘ |
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 Deman Description of subject: Robert Deman was an actor best known for his role in the 1973 prison escape film "Papillon."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Robert Deman