Dalton Trumbo
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Dalton Trumbo was a prominent American screenwriter and novelist, one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the Red Scare, who later won two Academy Awards under pseudonyms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dalton Trumbo canonical | 16 |
| James Dalton Trumbo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224112 — 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: Dalton Trumbo Context triple: [A Guy Named Joe, screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo]
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A.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman J. Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter and wit best known for co-writing the landmark film "Citizen Kane" and for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht was a prolific American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist renowned for his sharp dialogue and influential work on classic Hollywood films such as "Scarface" and "Notorious."
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C.
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Frank Capra on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic film "Casablanca" and numerous other successful Hollywood screenplays.
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E.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
- 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: Dalton Trumbo Target entity description: Dalton Trumbo was a prominent American screenwriter and novelist, one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the Red Scare, who later won two Academy Awards under pseudonyms.
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A.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman J. Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter and wit best known for co-writing the landmark film "Citizen Kane" and for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht was a prolific American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist renowned for his sharp dialogue and influential work on classic Hollywood films such as "Scarface" and "Notorious."
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C.
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Frank Capra on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic film "Casablanca" and numerous other successful Hollywood screenplays.
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E.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Dalton Trumbo Description of subject: Dalton Trumbo was a prominent American screenwriter and novelist, one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the Red Scare, who later won two Academy Awards under pseudonyms.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject surface form:
Terror in a Texas Town
this entity surface form:
James Dalton Trumbo