Elwood Reid
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Elwood Reid is an American television writer and producer known for his work on crime dramas, including serving as a key creative force behind the U.S. adaptation of "The Bridge."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elwood Reid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6965202 — 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: Elwood Reid Context triple: [The Bridge (American TV series), developer, Elwood Reid]
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A.
Rex Harrington
Rex Harrington is a celebrated Canadian ballet dancer and former principal with the National Ballet of Canada, renowned for his dramatic stage presence and virtuosic technique.
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B.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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C.
Don Lockwood
Don Lockwood is the charismatic silent-film star-turned-musical leading man portrayed by Gene Kelly in the classic Hollywood film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Willard Mack
Willard Mack was a Canadian-born American playwright, actor, and director known for his successful stage works that were frequently adapted into films during the early 20th century.
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E.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
- 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: Elwood Reid Target entity description: Elwood Reid is an American television writer and producer known for his work on crime dramas, including serving as a key creative force behind the U.S. adaptation of "The Bridge."
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A.
Rex Harrington
Rex Harrington is a celebrated Canadian ballet dancer and former principal with the National Ballet of Canada, renowned for his dramatic stage presence and virtuosic technique.
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B.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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C.
Don Lockwood
Don Lockwood is the charismatic silent-film star-turned-musical leading man portrayed by Gene Kelly in the classic Hollywood film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Willard Mack
Willard Mack was a Canadian-born American playwright, actor, and director known for his successful stage works that were frequently adapted into films during the early 20th century.
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E.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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living person ⓘ novelist ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedOn | Bron/Broen (Danish–Swedish TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Michigan Wolverines football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barkskins (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Big Sky (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cold Case (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ If I Don’t Six (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chi (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Undertow (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | offensive lineman ⓘ |
| role |
creator of Barkskins (TV series)
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executive producer of The Bridge (U.S. TV series) ⓘ showrunner of Big Sky (TV series) ⓘ showrunner of The Bridge (U.S. TV series) ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| workOn |
Barkskins (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Big Sky (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cold Case (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chi (TV series) 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: Elwood Reid Description of subject: Elwood Reid is an American television writer and producer known for his work on crime dramas, including serving as a key creative force behind the U.S. adaptation of "The Bridge."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Bridge (American TV series)