Richard Price
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Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty urban crime stories and work on films like "The Color of Money" and TV series such as "The Wire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Price canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3820001 — 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: Richard Price Context triple: [Ransom, screenwriter, Richard Price]
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A.
Richard Price
Richard Price was an 18th-century Welsh moral philosopher, dissenting minister, and political radical known for his influential writings on population, economics, and civil liberties.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
William Greene
William Greene is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
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D.
Richard Halliday
Richard Halliday was a prominent American Broadway producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century musical theatre.
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E.
Daniel Butterfield
Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
- 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: Richard Price Target entity description: Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty urban crime stories and work on films like "The Color of Money" and TV series such as "The Wire."
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A.
Richard Price
Richard Price was an 18th-century Welsh moral philosopher, dissenting minister, and political radical known for his influential writings on population, economics, and civil liberties.
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B.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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C.
William Greene
William Greene is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, academia, and the arts.
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D.
Richard Halliday
Richard Halliday was a prominent American Broadway producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century musical theatre.
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E.
Daniel Butterfield
Daniel Butterfield was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best known for composing the bugle call "Taps."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime fiction writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
City College of New York
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Columbia University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Price ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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urban fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Price ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAward | Edgar Award ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dialogue-driven crime narratives
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gritty depictions of urban life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bloodbrothers
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Clockers ⓘ Freedomland ⓘ Ladies' Man ⓘ Life Lessons ⓘ Lush Life ⓘ Mad Dog and Glory ⓘ Ransom ⓘ Samaritan ⓘ Sea of Love ⓘ The Color of Money ⓘ The Night Of ⓘ The Wanderers ⓘ The Whites ⓘ The Wire ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
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The Bronx ⓘ |
| writingStyle | realist ⓘ |
| wroteForTelevisionSeries |
NYC 22
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The Night Of ⓘ The Wire ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Life Lessons
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Mad Dog and Glory ⓘ Ransom ⓘ Sea of Love ⓘ The Color of Money ⓘ |
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: Richard Price Description of subject: Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty urban crime stories and work on films like "The Color of Money" and TV series such as "The Wire."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Night and the City (1992 film)