Merrill De Maris
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Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Merrill De Maris canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1518321 — 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: Merrill De Maris Context triple: [Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, screenplayBy, Merrill De Maris]
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Kate Lardner
Kate Lardner is an American writer and actress, and a member of the prominent Lardner family of authors and journalists.
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C.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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D.
Jean Speegle Howard
Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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E.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
- 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: Merrill De Maris Target entity description: Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Kate Lardner
Kate Lardner is an American writer and actress, and a member of the prominent Lardner family of authors and journalists.
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C.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
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D.
Jean Speegle Howard
Jean Speegle Howard was an American character actress known for her work in film and television and as the mother of filmmaker Ron Howard.
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E.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney artist
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ story artist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
The Walt Disney Company
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Walt Disney Studios ⓘ |
| familyName | De Maris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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film ⓘ |
| genre | animated films ⓘ |
| givenName | Merrill ⓘ |
| industry |
animation industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Merrill De Maris self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notability | co-writing screenplay for landmark animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⓘ |
| notableWork | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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story artist ⓘ |
| roleInWork | co-writer of screenplay for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Disney animated shorts
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⓘ |
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: Merrill De Maris Description of subject: Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.