Harper
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"Harper" is a 1966 neo-noir mystery film, adapted by screenwriter William Goldman from Ross Macdonald’s novel "The Moving Target" and starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harper canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7135570 — 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: Harper Context triple: [William Goldman, notableWork, Harper]
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A.
Harper
Harper is a major American publishing house known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction works.
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B.
Harper
Harper is a small community located in Raleigh County, West Virginia, in the United States.
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C.
Harper
Harper is a central character in the young adult novel "Watch Over Me," whose experiences and relationships drive much of the story’s emotional arc.
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D.
Harper
Harper is a common English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, historically referring to someone who played the harp.
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E.
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a British television drama series about a roguish yet charming antiques dealer with a knack for spotting valuable items and getting into trouble.
- 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: Harper Target entity description: "Harper" is a 1966 neo-noir mystery film, adapted by screenwriter William Goldman from Ross Macdonald’s novel "The Moving Target" and starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper.
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A.
Harper
Harper is a major American publishing house known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction works.
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B.
Harper
Harper is a small community located in Raleigh County, West Virginia, in the United States.
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C.
Harper
Harper is a central character in the young adult novel "Watch Over Me," whose experiences and relationships drive much of the story’s emotional arc.
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D.
Harper
Harper is a common English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, historically referring to someone who played the harp.
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E.
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a British television drama series about a roguish yet charming antiques dealer with a knack for spotting valuable items and getting into trouble.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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fictional private detective ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Moving Target NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Ross Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | Ross Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNominated | Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Moving Target NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember | Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Lew Harper
NERFINISHED
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Lew Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Conrad L. Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Jack Smight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
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surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| editedBy | Stewart L. Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEditingBy | William H. Ziegler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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mystery ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Drowning Pool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lew Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Johnny Mandel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf |
Paul Newman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Goldman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Lew Archer / Lew Harper film adaptations ⓘ |
| producer |
Elliott Kastner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerry Gershwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 121 ⓘ |
| screenplayNotableFor | William Goldman’s first major Hollywood success ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Goldman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| setting | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Paul Newman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Newman 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: Harper Description of subject: "Harper" is a 1966 neo-noir mystery film, adapted by screenwriter William Goldman from Ross Macdonald’s novel "The Moving Target" and starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Betty Joan Perske