Robert Kenner
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Robert Kenner is an American film director and producer best known for his investigative documentaries on social and environmental issues, including the acclaimed food industry exposé "Food, Inc."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Kenner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9735534 — 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 Kenner Context triple: [Food, Inc., director, Robert Kenner]
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A.
Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz is an American journalist and media critic best known for hosting media analysis programs on Fox News and CNN and for his long-running media column in The Washington Post.
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B.
David Brock
David Brock is an American political operative and media figure known for his transformation from conservative journalist to prominent liberal activist and founder of the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
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C.
Jim Burnstein
Jim Burnstein is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1994 film "Renaissance Man" and for his work as a screenwriting professor and mentor.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Steve Kroft
Steve Kroft is an American journalist best known as a longtime investigative correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
- 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 Kenner Target entity description: Robert Kenner is an American film director and producer best known for his investigative documentaries on social and environmental issues, including the acclaimed food industry exposé "Food, Inc."
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A.
Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz is an American journalist and media critic best known for hosting media analysis programs on Fox News and CNN and for his long-running media column in The Washington Post.
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B.
David Brock
David Brock is an American political operative and media figure known for his transformation from conservative journalist to prominent liberal activist and founder of the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
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C.
Jim Burnstein
Jim Burnstein is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1994 film "Renaissance Man" and for his work as a screenwriting professor and mentor.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Steve Kroft
Steve Kroft is an American journalist best known as a longtime investigative correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television documentary production ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
NERFINISHED
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Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special NERFINISHED ⓘ Peabody Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Los Angeles (approximate professional base) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
America’s Endangered Species: Don’t Say Good-bye
NERFINISHED
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Command and Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Food, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Merchants of Doubt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road to Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Days in October NERFINISHED ⓘ When Strangers Click NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
climate change communication
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consumer protection ⓘ environmental issues ⓘ food industry ⓘ public health ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
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investigative documentary ⓘ |
| knownFor |
environmental documentaries
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investigative documentaries ⓘ social issue documentaries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critiquing industrial food production in the United States
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examining corporate influence on science communication ⓘ |
| notableWork |
America’s Endangered Species: Don’t Say Good-bye
NERFINISHED
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Command and Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Food, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Merchants of Doubt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road to Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Days in October NERFINISHED ⓘ When Strangers Click NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| producerOf | Food, Inc. 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 Kenner Description of subject: Robert Kenner is an American film director and producer best known for his investigative documentaries on social and environmental issues, including the acclaimed food industry exposé "Food, Inc."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.