Harold Lamb
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Harold Lamb was an American historian, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his popular biographies and adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harold Lamb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7649300 — 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 Lamb Context triple: [Lamb, hasNotableBearer, Harold Lamb]
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A.
H. M. Harwood
H. M. Harwood was a British playwright and screenwriter active in the early 20th century, known for his work on stage adaptations and films.
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B.
Walter Connolly
Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
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C.
James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall was an American author and World War I veteran best known for co-writing the classic historical novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" and its sequels.
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D.
Ernest Haycox
Ernest Haycox was an American author renowned for his prolific and influential Western fiction, several of whose stories were adapted into classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
- 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 Lamb Target entity description: Harold Lamb was an American historian, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his popular biographies and adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts.
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A.
H. M. Harwood
H. M. Harwood was a British playwright and screenwriter active in the early 20th century, known for his work on stage adaptations and films.
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B.
Walter Connolly
Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
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C.
James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall was an American author and World War I veteran best known for co-writing the classic historical novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" and its sequels.
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D.
Ernest Haycox
Ernest Haycox was an American author renowned for his prolific and influential Western fiction, several of whose stories were adapted into classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1892-09-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1962-04-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer | Adventure (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Asian history
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Middle Eastern history ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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biography ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts
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popular biographies of Asian and Middle Eastern figures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Durandal
NERFINISHED
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Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Nur Mahal NERFINISHED ⓘ Swords from the Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Swords from the West NERFINISHED ⓘ Swords in the East NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crusades: The Flame of Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ The Curved Saber NERFINISHED ⓘ The March of the Barbarians NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Palladins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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historian ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Alpine, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | Hollywood screenplays ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Central Asia
NERFINISHED
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Crusades NERFINISHED ⓘ Genghis Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mongol Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamerlane 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 Lamb Description of subject: Harold Lamb was an American historian, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his popular biographies and adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.