Richie Roberts
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Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richie Roberts canonical | 2 |
| Richie Roberts (American Gangster film character) | 1 |
| Richie Roberts (real person) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523984 — 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: Richie Roberts Context triple: [American Gangster, mainCharacter, Richie Roberts]
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A.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
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B.
Michele Lamar Richards
Michele Lamar Richards is an American actress best known for her supporting role in the 1992 romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
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D.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
- 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: Richie Roberts Target entity description: Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
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A.
Roderic Dallas
Roderic Dallas was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the leading pilots in British naval aviation.
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B.
Michele Lamar Richards
Michele Lamar Richards is an American actress best known for her supporting role in the 1992 romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
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D.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law enforcement officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ prosecutor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedOn | character Richie Roberts in the film "American Gangster" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Essex County Prosecutor's Office ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal law
ⓘ
narcotics investigations ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | true crime (as subject) ⓘ |
| hasPortrayal |
Richie Roberts
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Richie Roberts (American Gangster film character)
|
| influenced | public perception of the Frank Lucas case ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | depicted in the 2007 film "American Gangster" ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
cooperation with federal authorities against drug trafficking
ⓘ
prosecution of Frank Lucas ⓘ |
| notableFact |
American Gangster
ⓘ
surface form:
collaborated with filmmakers as a consultant on "American Gangster"
known for integrity in handling drug money evidence in the Frank Lucas case ⓘ later worked as a criminal defense attorney ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas ⓘ |
| notableWork | investigation of Frank Lucas ⓘ |
| occupation |
defense attorney
ⓘ
detective ⓘ prosecutor ⓘ |
| participantIn | investigation of heroin trafficking in New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Essex County assistant prosecutor ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
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| saidToBeTheInspirationFor | Richie Roberts character in "American Gangster" ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
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: Richie Roberts Description of subject: Richie Roberts is a real-life New Jersey detective and prosecutor best known for his role in bringing down drug lord Frank Lucas, a story dramatized in the film "American Gangster."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richie Roberts (American Gangster film character)
subject surface form:
Richie Roberts
this entity surface form:
Richie Roberts (real person)