Robert Bolt
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Robert Bolt was a renowned British playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the screenplays of epic films such as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Bolt canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1086388 — 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 Bolt Context triple: [Lawrence of Arabia, screenwriter, Robert Bolt]
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A.
Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
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B.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Tony Way
Tony Way is an English actor, comedian, and writer known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Game of Thrones and various British comedies.
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E.
Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
- 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 Bolt Target entity description: Robert Bolt was a renowned British playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the screenplays of epic films such as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago."
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A.
Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
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B.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director renowned for his sophisticated adaptations of literary works for stage and film, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Dangerous Liaisons."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Tony Way
Tony Way is an English actor, comedian, and writer known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Game of Thrones and various British comedies.
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E.
Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Bolt Description of subject: Robert Bolt was a renowned British playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the screenplays of epic films such as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.