Robert Ames
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Robert Ames was a prominent CIA officer and Middle East expert whose clandestine work and death in the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing are chronicled in the biography *The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Ames canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2198233 — 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 Ames Context triple: [The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, mainSubject, Robert Ames]
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A.
Philip Snowden
Philip Snowden was a British Labour politician and economist who became the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, known for his strict adherence to fiscal orthodoxy during the interwar period.
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B.
Charles Hamilton
Charles Hamilton is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an 18th-century Scottish-born British politician and a contemporary American rapper and producer.
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C.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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D.
Christopher Smyth
Christopher Smyth was a 19th-century mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps.
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E.
Christopher Soames
Christopher Soames was a British Conservative politician and diplomat who held several senior government posts and later served as the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia and a European Commissioner.
- 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 Ames Target entity description: Robert Ames was a prominent CIA officer and Middle East expert whose clandestine work and death in the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing are chronicled in the biography *The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames*.
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A.
Philip Snowden
Philip Snowden was a British Labour politician and economist who became the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, known for his strict adherence to fiscal orthodoxy during the interwar period.
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B.
Charles Hamilton
Charles Hamilton is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an 18th-century Scottish-born British politician and a contemporary American rapper and producer.
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C.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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D.
Christopher Smyth
Christopher Smyth was a 19th-century mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps.
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E.
Christopher Soames
Christopher Soames was a British Conservative politician and diplomat who held several senior government posts and later served as the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia and a European Commissioner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Central Intelligence Agency officer
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biographical book ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States government ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | explosion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Lebanon ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames ⓘ |
| diedIn |
1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
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surface form:
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut
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| employer | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| familyName | Ames ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Middle East affairs
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intelligence ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability |
espionage
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foreign policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasRole |
CIA operations officer
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Middle East analyst ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Robert Ames self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | terrorist bombing ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States Intelligence Community
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surface form:
United States intelligence community
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| notableFor |
back-channel contacts with Middle Eastern actors
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developing high-level sources in the Middle East ⓘ expertise on the Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ influence on U.S. contacts with Palestinian figures ⓘ role in U.S. Middle East policy ⓘ service during the Lebanese Civil War period ⓘ |
| notableWork | clandestine operations in the Middle East ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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intelligence officer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beirut ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Beirut
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Middle East ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Robert Ames Description of subject: Robert Ames was a prominent CIA officer and Middle East expert whose clandestine work and death in the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing are chronicled in the biography *The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames