Harry Kurnitz
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Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Kurnitz canonical | 5 |
| Max Stein | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1943087 — 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: Harry Kurnitz Context triple: [Witness for the Prosecution, screenwriter, Harry Kurnitz]
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A.
Milton R. Krasner
Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
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B.
Robert Krasker
Robert Krasker was an Australian-born cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as "The Third Man."
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C.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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D.
Arnold Jacob Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
- 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: Harry Kurnitz Target entity description: Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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A.
Milton R. Krasner
Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
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B.
Robert Krasker
Robert Krasker was an Australian-born cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as "The Third Man."
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C.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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D.
Arnold Jacob Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kurnitz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction writing
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film ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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crime fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Harry Kurnitz self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mystery screenplays
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witty crime scripts ⓘ |
| notableRole | Hollywood screenwriter ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Los Angeles
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| wrote |
novels
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screenplays for crime films ⓘ screenplays for mystery films ⓘ stage plays ⓘ |
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: Harry Kurnitz Description of subject: Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Max Stein