Robert William Hoskins
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Robert William Hoskins, better known as Bob Hoskins, was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his intense, working-class portrayals in films such as "The Long Good Friday" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert William Hoskins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577933 — 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 William Hoskins Context triple: [Bob Hoskins, birthName, Robert William Hoskins]
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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C.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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D.
Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay is an English actor known for his versatile performances in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "My Family" and acclaimed stage productions.
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E.
Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
- 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 William Hoskins Target entity description: Robert William Hoskins, better known as Bob Hoskins, was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his intense, working-class portrayals in films such as "The Long Good Friday" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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C.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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D.
Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay is an English actor known for his versatile performances in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in series such as "My Family" and acclaimed stage productions.
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E.
Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
- 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 William Hoskins Description of subject: Robert William Hoskins, better known as Bob Hoskins, was an acclaimed English actor renowned for his intense, working-class portrayals in films such as "The Long Good Friday" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.