Larry Marcus
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Larry Marcus was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, including the adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Marcus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1943088 — 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: Larry Marcus Context triple: [Witness for the Prosecution, screenwriter, Larry Marcus]
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A.
John Brisker
John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
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B.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
- 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: Larry Marcus Target entity description: Larry Marcus was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, including the adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution."
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A.
John Brisker
John Brisker was a high-scoring and notoriously tough American basketball player of the late 1960s and early 1970s, remembered both for his ABA/NBA play and his mysterious disappearance in Uganda.
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B.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Witness for the Prosecution
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surface form:
Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution (short story and play)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film industry
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | classic mid-20th-century films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Witness for the Prosecution ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workOn |
Witness for the Prosecution
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surface form:
Witness for the Prosecution (film adaptation)
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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: Larry Marcus Description of subject: Larry Marcus was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, including the adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.