Mac Hyman
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Mac Hyman was an American novelist best known for his humorous 1954 military comedy novel "No Time for Sergeants," which became a popular stage, film, and television adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mac Hyman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567567 — 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: Mac Hyman Context triple: [No Time for Sergeants, author, Mac Hyman]
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A.
Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman is an American psychologist, skeptic, and prominent critic of parapsychology known for his work in scientifically investigating and debunking paranormal claims.
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B.
Marvin Andrews
Marvin Andrews is a Trinidad and Tobago former central defender best known for his powerful, committed performances in Scottish football, particularly with clubs like Livingston and Rangers.
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C.
Bill Kramer
Bill Kramer is an American entrepreneur best known for establishing the iconic independent bookstore and café Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington, D.C.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
- 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: Mac Hyman Target entity description: Mac Hyman was an American novelist best known for his humorous 1954 military comedy novel "No Time for Sergeants," which became a popular stage, film, and television adaptation.
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A.
Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman is an American psychologist, skeptic, and prominent critic of parapsychology known for his work in scientifically investigating and debunking paranormal claims.
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B.
Marvin Andrews
Marvin Andrews is a Trinidad and Tobago former central defender best known for his powerful, committed performances in Scottish football, particularly with clubs like Livingston and Rangers.
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C.
Bill Kramer
Bill Kramer is an American entrepreneur best known for establishing the iconic independent bookstore and café Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington, D.C.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Howard Sherman
Howard Sherman is an American businessman and film producer best known as the husband of actress Sela Ward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American novelist
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film ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ stage play ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author | Mac Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | literature ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fiction
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comic novel ⓘ humor ⓘ military comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
No Time for Sergeants (film)
NERFINISHED
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No Time for Sergeants (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ No Time for Sergeants (television adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
United States Air Force
NERFINISHED
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military life ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | No Time for Sergeants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | No Time for Sergeants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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writer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Mac Hyman Description of subject: Mac Hyman was an American novelist best known for his humorous 1954 military comedy novel "No Time for Sergeants," which became a popular stage, film, and television adaptation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.