Robert Tasker
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Robert Tasker was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to crime and drama films in the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Tasker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200949 — 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 Tasker Context triple: [Doctor X, screenwriter, Robert Tasker]
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A.
Peter Kirk
Peter Kirk is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Kirk rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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B.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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C.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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D.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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E.
Red Grant
Red Grant is a ruthless, psychopathic assassin and primary antagonist in the James Bond franchise, most prominently appearing as SPECTRE’s top killer in the film and novel "From Russia, with Love."
- 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 Tasker Target entity description: Robert Tasker was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to crime and drama films in the 1930s.
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A.
Peter Kirk
Peter Kirk is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Kirk rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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B.
William Sims
William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
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C.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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D.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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E.
Red Grant
Red Grant is a ruthless, psychopathic assassin and primary antagonist in the James Bond franchise, most prominently appearing as SPECTRE’s top killer in the film and novel "From Russia, with Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early sound era of Hollywood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | known for work in early sound-era Hollywood crime and drama films ⓘ |
| notableActivity |
contributing to crime films in the 1930s
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contributing to drama films in the 1930s ⓘ |
| notableFor | screenwriting during Hollywood’s early sound era ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Hollywood ⓘ |
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 Tasker Description of subject: Robert Tasker was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to crime and drama films in the 1930s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.