Nunnally Johnson
E218473
Nunnally Johnson was an American screenwriter, producer, and director known for adapting major literary works for Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nunnally Johnson canonical | 19 |
| Nunnally | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1956166 — 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: Nunnally Johnson Context triple: [Jesse James (1939 film), screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson]
-
A.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
-
B.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
-
C.
Marion Levy
Marion Levy, better known by her stage name Paulette Goddard, was an American actress and film star prominent in the 1930s and 1940s, noted for her roles in Charlie Chaplin films and several Hollywood classics.
-
D.
John Flournoy Montgomery
John Flournoy Montgomery was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary in the years leading up to and during the early part of World War II.
-
E.
Ammi B. Young
Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
- 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: Nunnally Johnson Target entity description: Nunnally Johnson was an American screenwriter, producer, and director known for adapting major literary works for Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
-
A.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
-
B.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
-
C.
Marion Levy
Marion Levy, better known by her stage name Paulette Goddard, was an American actress and film star prominent in the 1930s and 1940s, noted for her roles in Charlie Chaplin films and several Hollywood classics.
-
D.
John Flournoy Montgomery
John Flournoy Montgomery was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary in the years leading up to and during the early part of World War II.
-
E.
Ammi B. Young
Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child | Nora Johnson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-12-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-03-25 ⓘ |
| directed |
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
ⓘ
The Three Faces of Eve ⓘ |
| employer | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
literary adaptation ⓘ |
| givenName |
Nunnally Johnson
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Nunnally
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nunnally Johnson self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay (The Grapes of Wrath)
|
| notableFor | adapting major literary works for film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Grapes of Wrath
ⓘ
surface form:
The Grapes of Wrath (screenplay)
The Keys of the Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
The Keys of the Kingdom (screenplay)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ⓘ
surface form:
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (screenplay)
The Moon Is Down ⓘ
surface form:
The Moon Is Down (screenplay)
The Three Faces of Eve (screenplay) ⓘ The World of Henry Orient (producer) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Columbus, Georgia
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbus, Georgia, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| screenwriterFor |
The Grapes of Wrath
ⓘ
surface form:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940 film)
The Keys of the Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944 film)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ⓘ
surface form:
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956 film)
The Moon Is Down ⓘ
surface form:
The Moon Is Down (1943 film)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957 film) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alice Love Mason
ⓘ
Dorris Bowdon ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Nunnally Johnson Description of subject: Nunnally Johnson was an American screenwriter, producer, and director known for adapting major literary works for Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jesse James (1939 film)
this entity surface form:
Nunnally
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)
subject surface form:
My Cousin Rachel (1952 film)