Alec Sokolow
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Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the groundbreaking animated film "Toy Story."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alec Sokolow canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124309 — 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: Alec Sokolow Context triple: [Toy Story, writer, Alec Sokolow]
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A.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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B.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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C.
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.
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D.
Leonard Gershe
Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- 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: Alec Sokolow Target entity description: Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the groundbreaking animated film "Toy Story."
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A.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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B.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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C.
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.
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D.
Leonard Gershe
Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film writer
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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surface form:
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay
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| co-wrote |
Cheaper by the Dozen
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Garfield: The Movie ⓘ Toy Story ⓘ |
| co-wroteWith |
Andrew Stanton
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Joel Cohen ⓘ Joss Whedon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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cinema ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | screenwriting ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing the animated film "Toy Story" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to computer-animated feature films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cheaper by the Dozen
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Garfield: The Movie ⓘ Toy Story ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Alec Sokolow Description of subject: Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the groundbreaking animated film "Toy Story."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.