Robert H. Planck
E32756
Robert H. Planck was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert H. Planck canonical | 5 |
| Robert Planck | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173232 — 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 H. Planck Context triple: [The Tender Trap, cinematographyBy, Robert H. Planck]
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A.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Howard P. Robertson
Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
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C.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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D.
Percy W. Bridgman
Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
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E.
Philipp Frank
Philipp Frank was an Austrian physicist and philosopher best known as a leading member of the Vienna Circle and an influential proponent of logical positivism.
- 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 H. Planck Target entity description: Robert H. Planck was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Howard P. Robertson
Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
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C.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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D.
Percy W. Bridgman
Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
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E.
Philipp Frank
Philipp Frank was an Austrian physicist and philosopher best known as a leading member of the Vienna Circle and an influential proponent of logical positivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Planck ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Robert ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | work as a cinematographer on Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workedOn | Hollywood films ⓘ |
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 H. Planck Description of subject: Robert H. Planck was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Planck
subject surface form:
Good News (1947 film)
this entity surface form:
Robert Planck