Millard Kaufman
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Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for co-creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and writing acclaimed film scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Millard Kaufman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135681 — 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: Millard Kaufman Context triple: [Mr. Magoo, creator, Millard Kaufman]
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A.
Kenneth Ross
Kenneth Ross is a British screenwriter best known for adapting Frederick Forsyth’s thriller "The Day of the Jackal" for the screen.
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B.
Leonard Schrader
Leonard Schrader was an American screenwriter and director known for his collaborations with his brother Paul Schrader and for writing acclaimed films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
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C.
John M. Stahl
John M. Stahl was an American film director and producer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood melodramas and adaptations, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Will Geer
Will Geer was an American actor best known for his role as Grandpa Zebulon Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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E.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
- 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: Millard Kaufman Target entity description: Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for co-creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and writing acclaimed film scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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A.
Kenneth Ross
Kenneth Ross is a British screenwriter best known for adapting Frederick Forsyth’s thriller "The Day of the Jackal" for the screen.
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B.
Leonard Schrader
Leonard Schrader was an American screenwriter and director known for his collaborations with his brother Paul Schrader and for writing acclaimed films such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
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C.
John M. Stahl
John M. Stahl was an American film director and producer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood melodramas and adaptations, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Will Geer
Will Geer was an American actor best known for his role as Grandpa Zebulon Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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E.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military veteran
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | Bowl of Cherries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNominationForWork | Bad Day at Black Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| coCreatedWith | John Hubley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatedWork | Mr. Magoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Mr. Magoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-03-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-03-14 ⓘ |
| employer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| familyName | Kaufman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Millard Kaufman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| givenName | Millard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marine officer ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Day at Black Rock
NERFINISHED
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Bowl of Cherries NERFINISHED ⓘ Convicts 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Magoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Raintree County NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the High Ground! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Klansman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| screenwriterFor |
Bad Day at Black Rock
NERFINISHED
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Convicts 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Raintree County NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the High Ground! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Klansman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lorraine Kaufman 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: Millard Kaufman Description of subject: Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for co-creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and writing acclaimed film scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.