Robert Reid
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Robert Reid is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile forward and key contributor for the Houston Rockets during the late 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Reid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3606971 — 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)
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Target entity: Robert Reid Context triple: [1980–81 NBA season, sixthManOfTheYear, Robert Reid]
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A.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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B.
James W. Reid
James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
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C.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series like "Search Party" and "Stranger Things" as well as various independent films.
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D.
Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid is a British poet and former poetry editor known for his witty, emotionally resonant verse and for winning major literary awards such as the Costa Book Award.
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E.
Gilbert Roberts
Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-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 Reid Target entity description: Robert Reid is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile forward and key contributor for the Houston Rockets during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid was a prominent Scottish architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his influential neoclassical public buildings in Edinburgh.
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B.
James W. Reid
James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
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C.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series like "Search Party" and "Stranger Things" as well as various independent films.
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D.
Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid is a British poet and former poetry editor known for his witty, emotionally resonant verse and for winning major literary awards such as the Costa Book Award.
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E.
Gilbert Roberts
Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American basketball player
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basketball player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | late 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Reid ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | team sport ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasRole |
forward
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guard-forward ⓘ |
| knownFor | versatile forward for the Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| name | Robert Reid ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | key contributor to Houston Rockets playoff teams in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableFor | playoff performances with the Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| occupation | professional basketball player ⓘ |
| playedInLeague | NBA ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
power forward
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shooting guard ⓘ small forward ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| retired | true ⓘ |
| shoots | right ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamCity | Houston ⓘ |
| teamState | Texas ⓘ |
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 Reid Description of subject: Robert Reid is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile forward and key contributor for the Houston Rockets during the late 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.