Robert Stevenson (film director)
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Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work with Walt Disney Studios on classic family films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Old Yeller."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Stevenson (film director) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5612082 — 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 Stevenson (film director) Context triple: [Stevenson, hasNotableBearer, Robert Stevenson (film director)]
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A.
Robert Stevens
Robert Stevens was an American television and film director best known for his work on classic anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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B.
Roeg Sutherland
Roeg Sutherland is a film industry executive and talent agent known for his work in film finance and packaging, and as the son of actor Donald Sutherland.
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was an early English footballer best known for serving as captain of Thames Ironworks F.C., the club that later became West Ham United.
- 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 Stevenson (film director) Target entity description: Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work with Walt Disney Studios on classic family films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Old Yeller."
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A.
Robert Stevens
Robert Stevens was an American television and film director best known for his work on classic anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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B.
Roeg Sutherland
Roeg Sutherland is a film industry executive and talent agent known for his work in film finance and packaging, and as the son of actor Donald Sutherland.
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was an early English footballer best known for serving as captain of Thames Ironworks F.C., the club that later became West Ham United.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Edward Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Santa Barbara Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Parkinson's disease NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-03-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-04-30 ⓘ |
| directed |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
NERFINISHED
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Rides Again NERFINISHED ⓘ In Search of the Castaways NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Poppins NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Yeller NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of Flubber NERFINISHED ⓘ That Darn Cat! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Absent-Minded Professor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gnome-Mobile NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Bug NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaggy D.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Lives of Thomasina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St John's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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family film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| name | Robert Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Academy Award nomination for Best Director for Mary Poppins ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
NERFINISHED
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Rides Again NERFINISHED ⓘ In Search of the Castaways NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Poppins NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Yeller NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of Flubber NERFINISHED ⓘ That Darn Cat! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Absent-Minded Professor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gnome-Mobile NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Bug NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaggy D.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Lives of Thomasina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Buxton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Barbara, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anna Lee
NERFINISHED
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Frances Holyoke Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Ursula Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor | Walt Disney Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Stevenson (film director) Description of subject: Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work with Walt Disney Studios on classic family films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Old Yeller."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.