Robert Greene
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Robert Greene is an American author best known for his influential books on power, strategy, and human behavior, including "The 48 Laws of Power" and other widely read works on mastery and seduction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Greene canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6018901 — 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 Greene Context triple: [The 50th Law, coAuthor, Robert Greene]
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A.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene was an English Renaissance playwright, pamphleteer, and early professional author known for his prose romances and for being one of the first writers to criticize William Shakespeare.
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B.
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield is an American author and screenwriter best known for his historical war novels such as "Gates of Fire" and his inspirational non-fiction work "The War of Art."
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C.
Ralph Keyes
Ralph Keyes is a former Irish rugby union fly-half best known for being the top points scorer at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.
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D.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley is an American motivational speaker, author, and performance coach best known for his self-help books and audio programs on personal development and success.
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E.
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is an American author best known for writing nonfiction books about high-stakes gambling, technology, and finance, including the work that inspired the film "The Social Network."
- 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 Greene Target entity description: Robert Greene is an American author best known for his influential books on power, strategy, and human behavior, including "The 48 Laws of Power" and other widely read works on mastery and seduction.
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A.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene was an English Renaissance playwright, pamphleteer, and early professional author known for his prose romances and for being one of the first writers to criticize William Shakespeare.
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B.
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield is an American author and screenwriter best known for his historical war novels such as "Gates of Fire" and his inspirational non-fiction work "The War of Art."
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C.
Ralph Keyes
Ralph Keyes is a former Irish rugby union fly-half best known for being the top points scorer at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.
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D.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley is an American motivational speaker, author, and performance coach best known for his self-help books and audio programs on personal development and success.
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E.
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is an American author best known for writing nonfiction books about high-stakes gambling, technology, and finance, including the work that inspired the film "The Social Network."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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book ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ self-help writer ⓘ |
| author |
Robert Greene
NERFINISHED
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Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1959-05-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | 50 Cent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | 50 Cent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| degree | B.A. in classical studies ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| familyName | Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
human behavior
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mastery ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ seduction ⓘ strategy ⓘ |
| genre |
psychology
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self-help literature ⓘ strategy literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Niccolò Machiavelli
NERFINISHED
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Sun Tzu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mastery
NERFINISHED
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The 33 Strategies of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The 48 Laws of Power NERFINISHED ⓘ The 50th Law NERFINISHED ⓘ The Art of Seduction NERFINISHED ⓘ The Laws of Human Nature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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speaker ⓘ |
| workedAs |
Hollywood movie writer
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magazine writer ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| writingStyleDescribedAs |
focused on power relations
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influenced by historical examples ⓘ |
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 Greene Description of subject: Robert Greene is an American author best known for his influential books on power, strategy, and human behavior, including "The 48 Laws of Power" and other widely read works on mastery and seduction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.