Harold Livingston
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Harold Livingston was an American novelist and television writer best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Livingston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5143592 — 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: Harold Livingston Context triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, screenwriter, Harold Livingston]
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A.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
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B.
Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen was an American composer and songwriter renowned for his prolific work in film and popular music, including numerous standards written for Frank Sinatra and multiple Academy Award–winning songs.
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C.
Milton Ager
Milton Ager was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular standards of the early 20th century, many of which became enduring hits of the Tin Pan Alley era.
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D.
Hal David
Hal David was an American lyricist renowned for his long-running partnership with composer Burt Bacharach, together creating numerous classic pop hits of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus was an influential American blues singer and songwriter best known for co-writing numerous rock and roll and R&B classics in the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: Harold Livingston Target entity description: Harold Livingston was an American novelist and television writer best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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A.
Jerry Livingston
Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular film and pop standards, including work on classic Disney songs.
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B.
Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen was an American composer and songwriter renowned for his prolific work in film and popular music, including numerous standards written for Frank Sinatra and multiple Academy Award–winning songs.
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C.
Milton Ager
Milton Ager was an American songwriter and composer best known for his popular standards of the early 20th century, many of which became enduring hits of the Tin Pan Alley era.
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D.
Hal David
Hal David was an American lyricist renowned for his long-running partnership with composer Burt Bacharach, together creating numerous classic pop hits of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus was an influential American blues singer and songwriter best known for co-writing numerous rock and roll and R&B classics in the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-09-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-04-28 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| helpedOrganize | Israeli Air Force communications ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Harold Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the screenplay for Star Trek: The Motion Picture ⓘ |
| notableWork | Star Trek: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Westlake Village, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wasRadioOperatorFor | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | Star Trek: Phase II (unproduced television series project) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteForTelevisionSeries |
Mannix
NERFINISHED
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Mission: Impossible NERFINISHED ⓘ The Silent Force NERFINISHED ⓘ The Six Million Dollar Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Streets of San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteNovel |
No Trophy, No Sword
NERFINISHED
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Ride a Tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Climacticon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Coasts of the Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ To Die in Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ Touch the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Star Trek: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Harold Livingston Description of subject: Harold Livingston was an American novelist and television writer best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.