Jeffrey Konvitz
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Jeffrey Konvitz is an American author and film producer best known for his 1974 horror novel "The Sentinel," which was adapted into a feature film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey Konvitz canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859989 — 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: Jeffrey Konvitz Context triple: [The Sentinel, authorOfSourceWork, Jeffrey Konvitz]
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A.
James V. Hart
James V. Hart is an American screenwriter and producer best known for adapting classic literary and fantasy works for film, including projects like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Hook."
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B.
Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin was an American speechwriter, political advisor, and author who served in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in shaping Great Society rhetoric.
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C.
John Hart
John Hart is a film producer best known for his work on literary adaptations and independent movies, including the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
Howard E. Tatel
Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
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E.
David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is an American historian and Stanford University professor renowned for his influential works on U.S. history, particularly the Great Depression and World War II.
- 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: Jeffrey Konvitz Target entity description: Jeffrey Konvitz is an American author and film producer best known for his 1974 horror novel "The Sentinel," which was adapted into a feature film.
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A.
James V. Hart
James V. Hart is an American screenwriter and producer best known for adapting classic literary and fantasy works for film, including projects like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Hook."
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B.
Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin was an American speechwriter, political advisor, and author who served in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and played a key role in shaping Great Society rhetoric.
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C.
John Hart
John Hart is a film producer best known for his work on literary adaptations and independent movies, including the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
Howard E. Tatel
Howard E. Tatel was an American radio astronomer after whom the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was named.
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E.
David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is an American historian and Stanford University professor renowned for his influential works on U.S. history, particularly the Great Depression and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ film producer ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| author | Jeffrey Konvitz self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sentinel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
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Cornell University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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literature ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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horror film ⓘ thriller fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Final Chapter
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The Guardian ⓘ The Sentinel ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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film producer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| wrote |
The Final Chapter
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The Guardian ⓘ The Sentinel ⓘ |
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: Jeffrey Konvitz Description of subject: Jeffrey Konvitz is an American author and film producer best known for his 1974 horror novel "The Sentinel," which was adapted into a feature film.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Sentinel (novel)
subject surface form:
The Sentinel