Dorothy Yost
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Dorothy Yost was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to numerous studio films across genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Yost canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007663 — 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: Dorothy Yost Context triple: [The Gay Divorcee, screenwriter, Dorothy Yost]
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A.
Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Arnold was a young American socialite whose mysterious 1910 disappearance in New York City became one of the era’s most famous unsolved missing-person cases.
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B.
Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Arnold was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in several Hollywood productions before retiring from the screen.
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C.
Dorothy Wetzel Hunt
Dorothy Wetzel Hunt was an American CIA employee and the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who died in the 1972 crash of United Airlines Flight 553 under circumstances that fueled controversy and speculation.
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D.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
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E.
Dorothy Ely
Dorothy Ely was the wife of influential British analytic philosopher G. E. Moore.
- 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: Dorothy Yost Target entity description: Dorothy Yost was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to numerous studio films across genres.
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A.
Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Arnold was a young American socialite whose mysterious 1910 disappearance in New York City became one of the era’s most famous unsolved missing-person cases.
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B.
Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Arnold was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in several Hollywood productions before retiring from the screen.
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C.
Dorothy Wetzel Hunt
Dorothy Wetzel Hunt was an American CIA employee and the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who died in the 1972 crash of United Airlines Flight 553 under circumstances that fueled controversy and speculation.
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D.
Dorothy Goetz
Dorothy Goetz was the first wife of American composer Irving Berlin, remembered largely for her brief marriage and early death, which deeply influenced his later work.
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E.
Dorothy Ely
Dorothy Ely was the wife of influential British analytic philosopher G. E. Moore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film screenwriter ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound era of Hollywood
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Hollywood studios
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surface form:
Hollywood film studios
|
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributing to numerous studio films across genres ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Colorado Sunset (1939 film)
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In Old Monterey (1939 film) ⓘ Rancho Grande (1940 film) ⓘ The Awful Truth (1925 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Awful Truth (1929 film)
The Circus Clown ⓘ
surface form:
The Circus Clown (1934 film)
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933 film) ⓘ The Cowboy and the Kid ⓘ
surface form:
The Cowboy and the Kid (1936 film)
The Lone Wolf ⓘ
surface form:
The Lone Wolf Returns (1926 film)
The Man from Music Mountain (1938 film) ⓘ The Old Barn Dance (1938 film) ⓘ The Old Corral (1936 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema history ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workedOn |
feature films
ⓘ
short films ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Yost Description of subject: Dorothy Yost was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for contributing to numerous studio films across genres.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.