Richard Maxwell
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Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Maxwell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609766 — 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 Maxwell Context triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, screenwriter, Richard Maxwell]
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A.
Donald Cargill
Donald Cargill was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader known for his fierce opposition to royal interference in the church and his eventual execution for treason.
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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.
Charles Ewing
Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
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D.
Richard Franklin
Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Robert George Young
Robert George Young was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
- 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 Maxwell Target entity description: Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
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A.
Donald Cargill
Donald Cargill was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader known for his fierce opposition to royal interference in the church and his eventual execution for treason.
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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.
Charles Ewing
Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
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D.
Richard Franklin
Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Robert George Young
Robert George Young was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror film
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author | Wade Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Serpent and the Rainbow (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWrote | The Serpent and the Rainbow (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Haitian Vodou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
zombification ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Serpent and the Rainbow (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
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 Maxwell Description of subject: Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.