Laurence Stallings
E431273
Laurence Stallings was an American writer, playwright, and screenwriter known for his World War I novel "Plumes" and influential work on war-themed films and stage productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laurence Stallings canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4337436 — 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: Laurence Stallings Context triple: [She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, screenwriter, Laurence Stallings]
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
Eliot Stannard
Eliot Stannard was a British screenwriter best known for his extensive collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock during the silent film era.
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C.
Edward Stabler
Edward Stabler was a 19th-century Quaker pharmacist and businessman best known for establishing the apothecary that later became the Stabler–Leadbeater Apothecary Museum in Alexandria, Virginia.
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D.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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E.
Don Stevens
Don Stevens is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished from others sharing the surname Stevens.
- 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: Laurence Stallings Target entity description: Laurence Stallings was an American writer, playwright, and screenwriter known for his World War I novel "Plumes" and influential work on war-themed films and stage productions.
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
Eliot Stannard
Eliot Stannard was a British screenwriter best known for his extensive collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock during the silent film era.
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C.
Edward Stabler
Edward Stabler was a 19th-century Quaker pharmacist and businessman best known for establishing the apothecary that later became the Stabler–Leadbeater Apothecary Museum in Alexandria, Virginia.
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D.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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E.
Don Stevens
Don Stevens is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished from others sharing the surname Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | What Price Glory? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wake Forest College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Stallings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ war literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Laurence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
anti-war drama
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war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| name | Laurence Stallings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
World War I novel Plumes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
influential work on war-themed films ⓘ influential work on war-themed stage productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Plumes
NERFINISHED
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The Big Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doughboys NERFINISHED ⓘ The First World War: A Photographic History NERFINISHED ⓘ They Gave Him a Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ What Price Glory? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ |
| workFocus |
war-themed films
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war-themed stage productions ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
World War I
NERFINISHED
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military life ⓘ soldiers ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
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: Laurence Stallings Description of subject: Laurence Stallings was an American writer, playwright, and screenwriter known for his World War I novel "Plumes" and influential work on war-themed films and stage productions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.