The Shephard/Robin Company
E120477
The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shephard/Robin Company canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1041920 — 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: The Shephard/Robin Company Context triple: [The Closer, productionCompany, The Shephard/Robin Company]
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A.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Graham-Newman Corporation
Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
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C.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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E.
The Margaret Fink Company
The Margaret Fink Company is an Australian film production company best known for producing the acclaimed period drama "My Brilliant Career."
- 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: The Shephard/Robin Company Target entity description: The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
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A.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Graham-Newman Corporation
Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
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C.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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E.
The Margaret Fink Company
The Margaret Fink Company is an Australian film production company best known for producing the acclaimed period drama "My Brilliant Career."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
television production company
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television series ⓘ |
| activity | television series production ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| industry | television production ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Closer ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | TNT ⓘ |
| producer | The Shephard/Robin Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: The Shephard/Robin Company Description of subject: The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Closer
subject surface form:
The Closer Theme