Robert Thiele
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Robert Thiele is the birth name of Bob Thiele, the influential American record producer and jazz label executive best known for producing classic recordings and co-writing the song "What a Wonderful World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Thiele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5135779 — 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 Thiele Context triple: [Bob Thiele, alsoKnownAs, Robert Thiele]
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A.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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B.
Dennis Port
Dennis Port is a coastal village in the town of Dennis on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, known for its beaches and seaside tourism.
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C.
Robert Toms
Robert Toms was the prosecutor in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case in 1920s Detroit involving racial tensions and self-defense.
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D.
Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame was a British film director, producer, and cinematographer known for works such as "The Poseidon Adventure" and collaborations with Alec Guinness.
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- 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 Thiele Target entity description: Robert Thiele is the birth name of Bob Thiele, the influential American record producer and jazz label executive best known for producing classic recordings and co-writing the song "What a Wonderful World."
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A.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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B.
Dennis Port
Dennis Port is a coastal village in the town of Dennis on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, known for its beaches and seaside tourism.
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C.
Robert Toms
Robert Toms was the prosecutor in the landmark Ossian Sweet trial, a pivotal civil rights case in 1920s Detroit involving racial tensions and self-defense.
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D.
Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame was a British film director, producer, and cinematographer known for works such as "The Poseidon Adventure" and collaborations with Alec Guinness.
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
music executive ⓘ record producer ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| birthNameOf | Bob Thiele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Bob Thiele
NERFINISHED
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George David Weiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | What a Wonderful World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Impulse! Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
jazz music industry
ⓘ
record production ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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popular music ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Thiele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Robert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Thiele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing classic jazz recordings ⓘ |
| notableRole | producer of influential jazz albums ⓘ |
| notableWork | What a Wonderful World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
music executive
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
jazz label executive
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record label executive ⓘ |
| workedOn |
recordings by John Coltrane
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recordings by other major jazz artists ⓘ |
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 Thiele Description of subject: Robert Thiele is the birth name of Bob Thiele, the influential American record producer and jazz label executive best known for producing classic recordings and co-writing the song "What a Wonderful World."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.