Richard Robbins
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Richard Robbins was an American film composer best known for his long-standing collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, scoring acclaimed period dramas such as "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Robbins canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995662 — 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: Richard Robbins Context triple: [Howards End, musicBy, Richard Robbins]
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A.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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B.
Jeremy Gold
Jeremy Gold is a television producer and executive known for his work on the AMC Western drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Ted Sears
Ted Sears was an American screenwriter and story artist best known for his pioneering work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated films.
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D.
Daniel Kottke
Daniel Kottke is an early Apple employee and close college friend of Steve Jobs who worked on the original Apple computers.
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E.
Michael J. Smith
Michael J. Smith was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
- 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: Richard Robbins Target entity description: Richard Robbins was an American film composer best known for his long-standing collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, scoring acclaimed period dramas such as "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day."
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A.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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B.
Jeremy Gold
Jeremy Gold is a television producer and executive known for his work on the AMC Western drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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C.
Ted Sears
Ted Sears was an American screenwriter and story artist best known for his pioneering work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated films.
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D.
Daniel Kottke
Daniel Kottke is an early Apple employee and close college friend of Steve Jobs who worked on the original Apple computers.
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E.
Michael J. Smith
Michael J. Smith was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Richard Robbins Description of subject: Richard Robbins was an American film composer best known for his long-standing collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, scoring acclaimed period dramas such as "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
A Room with a View (1985 film)