Robert Hays
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Robert Hays is an American actor best known for his comedic lead role as the nervous pilot Ted Striker in the classic parody film "Airplane!" and its sequel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Hays canonical | 3 |
| Charlie Wilson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135348 — 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 Hays Context triple: [Airplane!, castMember, Robert Hays]
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A.
George F. Meacham
George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
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B.
Harold Jacob Smith
Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
Hugh Baird
Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
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E.
Charles J. Hatfield
Charles J. Hatfield was an American physician and public health leader best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the American Cancer Society.
- 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 Hays Target entity description: Robert Hays is an American actor best known for his comedic lead role as the nervous pilot Ted Striker in the classic parody film "Airplane!" and its sequel.
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A.
George F. Meacham
George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
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B.
Harold Jacob Smith
Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
Hugh Baird
Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
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E.
Charles J. Hatfield
Charles J. Hatfield was an American physician and public health leader best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the American Cancer Society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-07-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | San Diego State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jake Hays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0001332 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comedic performances
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lead role as Ted Striker in Airplane! ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Hays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGenre | parody film ⓘ |
| notableRole | Ted Striker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Airplane II: The Sequel
NERFINISHED
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Airplane! NERFINISHED ⓘ Angie (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ FM (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Starman (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Airplane II: The Sequel
NERFINISHED
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Airplane! NERFINISHED ⓘ Angie (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ FM (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Iron Man (1994 animated series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Starman (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bethesda, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Ted Striker in Airplane II: The Sequel
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Ted Striker in Airplane! ⓘ Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man (1994 animated series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| spouse | Cherie Currie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Tony Stark / Iron Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 Hays Description of subject: Robert Hays is an American actor best known for his comedic lead role as the nervous pilot Ted Striker in the classic parody film "Airplane!" and its sequel.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charlie Wilson