Robinson
E75069
Robinson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and other fields.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T602898 — 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: Robinson Context triple: [Joseph T. Robinson, familyName, Robinson]
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A.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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B.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a classic 1719 adventure novel by Daniel Defoe about a castaway who survives for years on a remote tropical island, often regarded as one of the earliest English novels.
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C.
Ishmael
Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
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D.
Conrad
Conrad is a character in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto," whose fate helps set the story’s dark and supernatural events in motion.
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E.
Capt. Cook's
Capt. Cook's is a casual quick-service restaurant at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort known for serving Polynesian-inspired dishes and popular Disney park favorites.
- 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: Robinson Target entity description: Robinson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and other fields.
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A.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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B.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a classic 1719 adventure novel by Daniel Defoe about a castaway who survives for years on a remote tropical island, often regarded as one of the earliest English novels.
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C.
Ishmael
Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
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D.
Conrad
Conrad is a character in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto," whose fate helps set the story’s dark and supernatural events in motion.
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E.
Capt. Cook's
Capt. Cook's is a casual quick-service restaurant at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort known for serving Polynesian-inspired dishes and popular Disney park favorites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
patronymic surname ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Patronymic surnames ⓘ Surnames from given names ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Robin ⓘ |
| etymologicalElement |
-son (denoting son of)
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Rob- (from Robert) ⓘ |
| frequencyRankInUnitedStates | common surname ⓘ |
| hasCognate |
Robbins
ⓘ
Robison ⓘ
surface form:
Robson
|
| hasVariant |
Robeson
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Robinson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Robinsonn
Robison ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Robin ⓘ |
| notableBearerField |
academia
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arts ⓘ business ⓘ film and television ⓘ literature ⓘ military ⓘ music ⓘ politics ⓘ science ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Barbados ⓘ Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usedInRegion |
Caribbean
ⓘ
England ⓘ North America ⓘ Northern Ireland ⓘ Oceania ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
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: Robinson Description of subject: Robinson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and other fields.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Little, Brown Book Group