Robert Shaye
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Robert Shaye is an American film executive and producer best known as the founder of New Line Cinema, which he built into a major independent movie studio.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Shaye canonical | 9 |
| J. Robert Shaye | 1 |
| Robert Kenneth Shaye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1089576 — 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 Shaye Context triple: [New Line Cinema, foundedBy, Robert Shaye]
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A.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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B.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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C.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a prolific American film and television producer known for high-octane blockbusters such as Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the CSI franchise.
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D.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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E.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
- 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 Shaye Target entity description: Robert Shaye is an American film executive and producer best known as the founder of New Line Cinema, which he built into a major independent movie studio.
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A.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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B.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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C.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a prolific American film and television producer known for high-octane blockbusters such as Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the CSI franchise.
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D.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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E.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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film executive ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | 1960s–2000s ⓘ |
| birthName |
Robert Shaye
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Robert Kenneth Shaye
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| businessSector | entertainment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-03-04 ⓘ |
| directed | The Last Mimzy ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaye ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| founded | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy film
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horror film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Lin Shaye ⓘ |
| hasRole |
director
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executive producer ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing New Line Cinema into a major independent film studio
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founding New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Shaye self-link ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Motion Picture Showmanship Award of the Publicists Guild of America
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ShoWest Producer of the Year Award ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
ⓘ
surface form:
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film)
Austin Powers film series ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film) ⓘ The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ⓘ The Mask ⓘ
surface form:
The Mask (1994 film)
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| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
film executive ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Detroit
ⓘ
surface form:
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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| positionHeld |
chairman of New Line Cinema
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chief executive officer of New Line Cinema ⓘ founder of New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sibling | Lin Shaye ⓘ |
| spouse | Eva Shaye ⓘ |
| yearFounded | 1967 ⓘ |
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 Shaye Description of subject: Robert Shaye is an American film executive and producer best known as the founder of New Line Cinema, which he built into a major independent movie studio.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Kenneth Shaye
this entity surface form:
J. Robert Shaye