Darryl Ponicsan
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Darryl Ponicsan is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for works such as "The Last Detail" and its film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Darryl Ponicsan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8019983 — 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: Darryl Ponicsan Context triple: [Taps, screenwriter, Darryl Ponicsan]
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A.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Ron Vachris
Ron Vachris is a retail executive best known as a senior leader and later CEO of Costco Wholesale, helping guide the company’s global warehouse-club operations and strategy.
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C.
Cecil Castellucci
Cecil Castellucci is an American writer and cartoonist best known for her young adult novels and comic books, including works published by DC Comics and in the Star Wars universe.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis was a prominent Israeli poet, Holocaust survivor, and scholar whose innovative, allusive verse made him one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.
- 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: Darryl Ponicsan Target entity description: Darryl Ponicsan is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for works such as "The Last Detail" and its film adaptations.
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A.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Ron Vachris
Ron Vachris is a retail executive best known as a senior leader and later CEO of Costco Wholesale, helping guide the company’s global warehouse-club operations and strategy.
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C.
Cecil Castellucci
Cecil Castellucci is an American writer and cartoonist best known for her young adult novels and comic books, including works published by DC Comics and in the Star Wars universe.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis was a prominent Israeli poet, Holocaust survivor, and scholar whose innovative, allusive verse made him one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Master of Arts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-05-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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Muhlenberg College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
California public schools
NERFINISHED
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Norfolk State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Polish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
novel Last Flag Flying and its film adaptation
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novel The Last Detail and its film adaptation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Unmarried Man
NERFINISHED
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Andoshen, Pa. NERFINISHED ⓘ Cinderella Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ Eternal Sojourners NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Flag Flying NERFINISHED ⓘ The Accomplice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Detail NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Detail II: Last Flag Flying NERFINISHED ⓘ The Passions of Captain Triplejack NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ringmaster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Valentine Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Mix Died for Your Sins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shenandoah, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| usedPseudonym |
Anne Argula
NERFINISHED
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D. P. Lyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
An Unmarried Man
NERFINISHED
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Andoshen, Pa. NERFINISHED ⓘ Cinderella Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ Eternal Sojourners NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Flag Flying NERFINISHED ⓘ The Accomplice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Detail NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Detail II: Last Flag Flying NERFINISHED ⓘ The Passions of Captain Triplejack NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ringmaster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Valentine Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Mix Died for Your Sins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Darryl Ponicsan Description of subject: Darryl Ponicsan is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for works such as "The Last Detail" and its film adaptations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.