Buzz Bezzerides
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Buzz Bezzerides was an Armenian-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and film noir screenplays, including adaptations like "They Drive by Night" and "Kiss Me Deadly."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buzz Bezzerides canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8788110 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Buzz Bezzerides Context triple: [A. I. Bezzerides, alsoKnownAs, Buzz Bezzerides]
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A.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
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B.
Quincy Magoo
Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
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C.
Lobster Johnson
Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
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D.
Moe Szyslak
Moe Szyslak is the gruff, unlucky bartender and owner of Moe’s Tavern in the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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E.
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.
- 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: Buzz Bezzerides Target entity description: Buzz Bezzerides was an Armenian-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and film noir screenplays, including adaptations like "They Drive by Night" and "Kiss Me Deadly."
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A.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
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B.
Quincy Magoo
Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
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C.
Lobster Johnson
Lobster Johnson is a pulp-style vigilante superhero from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe, known for his fiery claw symbol and battles against gangsters and occult threats in 1930s America.
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D.
Moe Szyslak
Moe Szyslak is the gruff, unlucky bartender and owner of Moe’s Tavern in the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Armenian-American
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Kiss Me Deadly
NERFINISHED
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They Drive by Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicity | Armenian ⓘ |
| familyName | Bezzerides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Albert Isaac Bezzerides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film noir
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hardboiled crime fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Albert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Armenian-American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
film noir screenplays
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hardboiled crime fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Buzz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kiss Me Deadly
NERFINISHED
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They Drive by Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Kiss Me Deadly
NERFINISHED
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They Drive by Night 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: Buzz Bezzerides Description of subject: Buzz Bezzerides was an Armenian-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and film noir screenplays, including adaptations like "They Drive by Night" and "Kiss Me Deadly."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.