Lawrence D. Cohen
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Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Stephen King's works, including the original film version of "Carrie" and the 1990 television miniseries "It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lawrence D. Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8242691 — 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: Lawrence D. Cohen Context triple: [It (1990 miniseries), screenwriter, Lawrence D. Cohen]
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
Philip J. Cohen
Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
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C.
Milton S. Cohen
Milton S. Cohen was the husband of American character actress Eleanor Audley, known for her distinctive voice roles in classic Disney films.
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D.
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen is a prominent American condensed matter physicist known for his pioneering work in computational materials science and electronic structure theory.
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E.
Lou L. Ostrow
Lou L. Ostrow was a film producer active in early American cinema, known for producing works such as the comedy "You’re Only Young Once."
- 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: Lawrence D. Cohen Target entity description: Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Stephen King's works, including the original film version of "Carrie" and the 1990 television miniseries "It."
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
Philip J. Cohen
Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
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C.
Milton S. Cohen
Milton S. Cohen was the husband of American character actress Eleanor Audley, known for her distinctive voice roles in classic Disney films.
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D.
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen is a prominent American condensed matter physicist known for his pioneering work in computational materials science and electronic structure theory.
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E.
Lou L. Ostrow
Lou L. Ostrow was a film producer active in early American cinema, known for producing works such as the comedy "You’re Only Young Once."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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playwright ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Carrie (novel by Stephen King)
NERFINISHED
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It (novel by Stephen King) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tommyknockers (novel by Stephen King) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptedWorksOf | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| basedOnWorksBy | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| co-wroteBookFor | Carrie (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| co-wroteScreenplayFor | Carrie (2013 film) additional material ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Dean Pitchford
NERFINISHED
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Michael Gore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
horror ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptedGenre |
psychological horror
ⓘ
supernatural horror ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Carrie (1976 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carrie (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ It (1990 television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | screen adaptations of Stephen King works ⓘ |
| notableWork |
book for Carrie (musical)
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screenplay for Carrie (1976 film) ⓘ teleplay for It (1990 television miniseries) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Carrie (1976 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteStageAdaptationOf | Carrie (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteTeleplayFor |
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ghost Story (1981 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ It (1990 television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ It (2017 film) early draft ⓘ The Invited (television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tommyknockers (1993 television miniseries) 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: Lawrence D. Cohen Description of subject: Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Stephen King's works, including the original film version of "Carrie" and the 1990 television miniseries "It."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.