Geoffrey Homes
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Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of American writer Daniel Mainwaring, best known for his hardboiled crime novels and screenplays, including the source novel for the classic film noir "Out of the Past."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geoffrey Homes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5585165 — 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: Geoffrey Homes Context triple: [Out of the Past, authorOfSourceWork, Geoffrey Homes]
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A.
Neville Barr
Neville Barr is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Barr, though specific widely known public achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Philip Meadows
Philip Meadows was an English diplomat and government official active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
Robert Fairthorne
Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
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E.
Antony Booth
Antony Booth was a British actor best known for his role in the sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part" and as the father-in-law of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
- 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: Geoffrey Homes Target entity description: Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of American writer Daniel Mainwaring, best known for his hardboiled crime novels and screenplays, including the source novel for the classic film noir "Out of the Past."
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A.
Neville Barr
Neville Barr is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Barr, though specific widely known public achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
Philip Meadows
Philip Meadows was an English diplomat and government official active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
Robert Fairthorne
Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
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E.
Antony Booth
Antony Booth was a British actor best known for his role in the sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part" and as the father-in-law of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | pen name ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Daniel Mainwaring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdCharacter |
Humphrey Campbell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robin Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film noir
ⓘ
pulp fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasPenNameOf | Daniel Mainwaring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
American crime fiction
ⓘ
film noir screenwriting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film noir source material
ⓘ
hardboiled crime novels ⓘ screenplays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Build My Gallows High
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Out of the Past NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| periodOfActivity |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| realName | Daniel Mainwaring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Daniel Mainwaring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Build My Gallows High
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
No Hands on the Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blonde on Borrowed Time NERFINISHED ⓘ The Case of the Laughing Virgin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Case of the Missing Corpse NERFINISHED ⓘ The Case of the Missing Pistol NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hill of the Terrified Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Didn’t Exist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Street of the Crying Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Then There Were Three NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSourceWorkFor | Out of the Past 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: Geoffrey Homes Description of subject: Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of American writer Daniel Mainwaring, best known for his hardboiled crime novels and screenplays, including the source novel for the classic film noir "Out of the Past."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.