Jerome Lawrence
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Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright best known for co-writing the stage play "Inherit the Wind" and other notable works with his longtime collaborator Robert E. Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerome Lawrence canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440117 — 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: Jerome Lawrence Context triple: [Inherit the Wind (1960 film), playwright, Jerome Lawrence]
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A.
Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and poet known for his influential verse dramas and contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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B.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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C.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Philip Barry
Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
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E.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
- 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: Jerome Lawrence Target entity description: Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright best known for co-writing the stage play "Inherit the Wind" and other notable works with his longtime collaborator Robert E. Lee.
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A.
Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and poet known for his influential verse dramas and contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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B.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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C.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Philip Barry
Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
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E.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
ⓘ
human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Robert E. Lee (playwright) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Mame
ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame
First Monday in October ⓘ 1960 film "Inherit the Wind" ⓘ
surface form:
Inherit the Wind
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
playwriting
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-author of Auntie Mame
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co-author of First Monday in October ⓘ co-author of Inherit the Wind ⓘ co-author of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing plays with Robert E. Lee (playwright) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mame
ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame
First Monday in October ⓘ 1960 film "Inherit the Wind" ⓘ
surface form:
Inherit the Wind
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partnerInWriting | Robert E. Lee (playwright) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jerome Lawrence Description of subject: Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright best known for co-writing the stage play "Inherit the Wind" and other notable works with his longtime collaborator Robert E. Lee.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Inherit the Wind (1960 film)