Robert Coles
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Robert Coles is an American child psychiatrist, author, and Harvard professor renowned for his influential studies of children’s moral and spiritual lives and for his extensive writings on social and ethical issues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Coles canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5913298 — 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 Coles Context triple: [Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities, notableRecipient, Robert Coles]
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A.
Michael Tronick
Michael Tronick is an American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood productions across several decades.
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B.
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach was a prominent engineer and applied mechanician known for his pioneering contributions to wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics, and nondestructive evaluation.
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C.
Murray Stein
Murray Stein is a Jungian analyst and author known for his influential writings on analytical psychology, individuation, and the work of C.G. Jung.
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D.
Marvin Etzioni
Marvin Etzioni is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as a founding member of the alternative country band Lone Justice and for his work producing roots and Americana artists.
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E.
Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson is an American biochemist and business executive best known as the longtime CEO of Genentech and the chairman of Apple Inc.'s board of directors.
- 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 Coles Target entity description: Robert Coles is an American child psychiatrist, author, and Harvard professor renowned for his influential studies of children’s moral and spiritual lives and for his extensive writings on social and ethical issues.
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A.
Michael Tronick
Michael Tronick is an American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood productions across several decades.
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B.
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach was a prominent engineer and applied mechanician known for his pioneering contributions to wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics, and nondestructive evaluation.
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C.
Murray Stein
Murray Stein is a Jungian analyst and author known for his influential writings on analytical psychology, individuation, and the work of C.G. Jung.
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D.
Marvin Etzioni
Marvin Etzioni is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as a founding member of the alternative country band Lone Justice and for his work producing roots and Americana artists.
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E.
Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson is an American biochemist and business executive best known as the longtime CEO of Genentech and the chairman of Apple Inc.'s board of directors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Harvard University faculty
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child psychiatrist ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American studies
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child psychiatry ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ moral development ⓘ social ethics ⓘ spiritual development ⓘ |
| genre |
ethics
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psychology ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
literature
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psychiatry ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
children in poverty
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civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ moral education ⓘ racial segregation in the United States ⓘ religious experience of children ⓘ working-class families ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| notableFor |
studies of children’s moral lives
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studies of children’s spiritual lives ⓘ writings on ethical issues ⓘ writings on social issues ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Children of Crisis
NERFINISHED
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The Call of Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moral Life of Children NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spiritual Life of Children NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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child psychiatrist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Coles Description of subject: Robert Coles is an American child psychiatrist, author, and Harvard professor renowned for his influential studies of children’s moral and spiritual lives and for his extensive writings on social and ethical issues.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.