Herschel Weingrod
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Herschel Weingrod is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular 1980s and 1990s comedies such as "Trading Places," "Twins," and "Kindergarten Cop."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herschel Weingrod canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2253701 — 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: Herschel Weingrod Context triple: [Brewster's Millions (1985 film), screenwriter, Herschel Weingrod]
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A.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
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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C.
Charles Schoenbaum
Charles Schoenbaum was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Walter Herz
Walter Herz was a graphic artist best known for designing the official poster for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
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E.
Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
- 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: Herschel Weingrod Target entity description: Herschel Weingrod is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular 1980s and 1990s comedies such as "Trading Places," "Twins," and "Kindergarten Cop."
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A.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
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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C.
Charles Schoenbaum
Charles Schoenbaum was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Walter Herz
Walter Herz was a graphic artist best known for designing the official poster for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
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E.
Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film writer
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Brewster's Millions
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Falling Down ⓘ Kindergarten Cop ⓘ Space Jam ⓘ Trading Places ⓘ Twins ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing popular Hollywood comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brewster's Millions
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Falling Down ⓘ Kindergarten Cop ⓘ Space Jam ⓘ Trading Places ⓘ Twins ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
| wroteGenre |
action film
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comedy film ⓘ family film ⓘ |
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: Herschel Weingrod Description of subject: Herschel Weingrod is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular 1980s and 1990s comedies such as "Trading Places," "Twins," and "Kindergarten Cop."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brewster's Millions (1985 film)