Robert Brown
E392265
Robert Brown was a British actor best known for playing M, James Bond’s superior at MI6, in several films of the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Brown canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859887 — 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 Brown Context triple: [A View to a Kill, castMember, Robert Brown]
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A.
Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
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B.
Caspar René Gregory
Caspar René Gregory was a German-American theologian and New Testament textual critic best known for developing the Gregory–Aland numbering system for classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts.
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C.
Charles Wyville Thomson
Charles Wyville Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and marine zoologist best known for leading the pioneering Challenger expedition that laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
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D.
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on bird classification and species descriptions at the British Museum.
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E.
John Lindley
John Lindley was a 19th-century English botanist renowned for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
- 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 Brown Target entity description: Robert Brown was a British actor best known for playing M, James Bond’s superior at MI6, in several films of the 1980s.
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A.
Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
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B.
Caspar René Gregory
Caspar René Gregory was a German-American theologian and New Testament textual critic best known for developing the Gregory–Aland numbering system for classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts.
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C.
Charles Wyville Thomson
Charles Wyville Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and marine zoologist best known for leading the pioneering Challenger expedition that laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
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D.
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on bird classification and species descriptions at the British Museum.
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E.
John Lindley
John Lindley was a 19th-century English botanist renowned for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A View to a Kill
ⓘ
Licence to Kill ⓘ Octopussy (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Octopussy
The Living Daylights ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | M ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employerInFiction | MI6 ⓘ |
| fictionalRoleRank | head of MI6 ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | James Bond universe ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | spy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying M, James Bond’s superior at MI6, in several 1980s films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A View to a Kill
ⓘ
Licence to Kill ⓘ Octopussy (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Octopussy
The Living Daylights ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
James Bond (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
James Bond film series
|
| portrayedInFilmSeries | James Bond ⓘ |
| replaced | Bernard Lee as M ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Roger Moore
ⓘ
Timothy Dalton ⓘ |
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 Brown Description of subject: Robert Brown was a British actor best known for playing M, James Bond’s superior at MI6, in several films of the 1980s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Octopussy