Robert Bloch
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fantasy writer
horror fiction writer
human
novelist
science fiction writer
screenwriter
short story writer
Robert Bloch was an American writer best known for his horror and suspense fiction, particularly the novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Psycho."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Bloch canonical | 10 |
| Robert Albert Bloch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4207020 — 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 Bloch Context triple: [Psycho, authorOfSourceWork, Robert Bloch]
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A.
Ira Levin
Ira Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his suspenseful and satirical works such as "Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives," and "The Boys from Brazil."
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B.
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential work in horror and science fiction films, including classic Universal monster movies.
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C.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
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D.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
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E.
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris is an American novelist best known for creating the character Hannibal Lecter in his series of psychological horror thrillers.
- 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 Bloch Target entity description: Robert Bloch was an American writer best known for his horror and suspense fiction, particularly the novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Psycho."
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A.
Ira Levin
Ira Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his suspenseful and satirical works such as "Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives," and "The Boys from Brazil."
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B.
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential work in horror and science fiction films, including classic Universal monster movies.
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C.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
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D.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
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E.
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris is an American novelist best known for creating the character Hannibal Lecter in his series of psychological horror thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy writer
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horror fiction writer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bram Stoker Award
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Hugo Award for Best Short Story ⓘ World Fantasy Award ⓘ |
| birthName |
Robert Bloch
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Robert Albert Bloch
|
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-04-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-09-23 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bloch ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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fantasy ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ suspense fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
H. P. Lovecraft
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Weird Tales tradition ⓘ |
| inspiredFilm |
Psycho
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surface form:
Psycho (1960 film)
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
First Fandom Hall of Fame (honoree)
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surface form:
First Fandom
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| name | Robert Bloch self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Gothic
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Psycho ⓘ Psycho House ⓘ Psycho II ⓘ Strange Eons ⓘ The Kidnapper ⓘ The Scarf ⓘ Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
|
| spouse |
Elly Bloch
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Marion Holcombe Bloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Star Trek: The Original Series
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surface form:
Star Trek (original series)
The Twilight Zone (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Twilight Zone (television series)
Weird Tales magazine ⓘ
surface form:
Weird Tales
|
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 Bloch Description of subject: Robert Bloch was an American writer best known for his horror and suspense fiction, particularly the novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Psycho."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Weird Tales
this entity surface form:
Robert Albert Bloch
subject surface form:
Fairvale, California