David Boehm
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David Boehm was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to several popular studio films of the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Boehm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546694 — 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: David Boehm Context triple: [Gold Diggers of 1933, screenwriter, David Boehm]
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A.
Jack Schwartz
Jack Schwartz was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, parallel computing, and the development of the SETL language.
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B.
Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks was an influential American computer scientist and software engineering pioneer best known for managing IBM’s System/360 project and authoring the classic book "The Mythical Man-Month."
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C.
James Rumbaugh
James Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and a pioneer in object-oriented modeling.
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D.
Dan Goldberg
Dan Goldberg is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "The Hangover."
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E.
Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
- 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: David Boehm Target entity description: David Boehm was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to several popular studio films of the 1930s.
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A.
Jack Schwartz
Jack Schwartz was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, parallel computing, and the development of the SETL language.
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B.
Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks was an influential American computer scientist and software engineering pioneer best known for managing IBM’s System/360 project and authoring the classic book "The Mythical Man-Month."
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C.
James Rumbaugh
James Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and a pioneer in object-oriented modeling.
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D.
Dan Goldberg
Dan Goldberg is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "The Hangover."
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E.
Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early sound era of Hollywood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | studio films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | screenwriting during Hollywood’s early sound era ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod | 1930s studio films ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: David Boehm Description of subject: David Boehm was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to several popular studio films of the 1930s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.