Robert McKim
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Robert McKim was an American silent film actor known for playing villainous roles in early 20th-century cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert McKim canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120125 — 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 McKim Context triple: [The Mark of Zorro, stars, Robert McKim]
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A.
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an influential American architectural historian and critic known for helping define and popularize modernist architecture in the 20th century.
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B.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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C.
Philip Handler
Philip Handler was an influential American biochemist and longtime president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, recognized for his leadership in science policy and public service.
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D.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
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E.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
- 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 McKim Target entity description: Robert McKim was an American silent film actor known for playing villainous roles in early 20th-century cinema.
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A.
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an influential American architectural historian and critic known for helping define and popularize modernist architecture in the 20th century.
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B.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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C.
Philip Handler
Philip Handler was an influential American biochemist and longtime president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, recognized for his leadership in science policy and public service.
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D.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
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E.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American silent cinema
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villainous roles in silent films ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 McKim Description of subject: Robert McKim was an American silent film actor known for playing villainous roles in early 20th-century cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.