Alan Silverman
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Alan Silverman is the introspective Brooklyn boy protagonist of the novel "Alan & Naomi," who struggles to understand and befriend a traumatized refugee girl during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Silverman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9853990 — 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: Alan Silverman Context triple: [Alan & Naomi, mainCharacter, Alan Silverman]
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A.
Jonathan Silverman
Jonathan Silverman is an American actor best known for his comedic roles in films like "Weekend at Bernie’s" and various television series.
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B.
Alan Siegel
Alan Siegel is a film producer best known for his long-running collaboration with actor Gerard Butler on action and thriller movies.
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C.
Marc Silverstein
Marc Silverstein is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing popular romantic comedies such as "He's Just Not That Into You," "Never Been Kissed," and "How to Be Single."
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D.
Samuel Silverstein
Samuel Silverstein is a mountaineer known for being among the first climbers to successfully reach the summit of Antarctica’s highest peak, Vinson Massif.
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E.
Michael Berman
Michael Berman is a writer and contributor known for his work published in George magazine.
- 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: Alan Silverman Target entity description: Alan Silverman is the introspective Brooklyn boy protagonist of the novel "Alan & Naomi," who struggles to understand and befriend a traumatized refugee girl during World War II.
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A.
Jonathan Silverman
Jonathan Silverman is an American actor best known for his comedic roles in films like "Weekend at Bernie’s" and various television series.
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B.
Alan Siegel
Alan Siegel is a film producer best known for his long-running collaboration with actor Gerard Butler on action and thriller movies.
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C.
Marc Silverstein
Marc Silverstein is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing popular romantic comedies such as "He's Just Not That Into You," "Never Been Kissed," and "How to Be Single."
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D.
Samuel Silverstein
Samuel Silverstein is a mountaineer known for being among the first climbers to successfully reach the summit of Antarctica’s highest peak, Vinson Massif.
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E.
Michael Berman
Michael Berman is a writer and contributor known for his work published in George magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Alan & Naomi (1992 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| age | adolescent ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Alan & Naomi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Holocaust (historical background) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| befriends | Naomi Kirshenbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterArc | grows in empathy and responsibility ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
curious
ⓘ
empathetic ⓘ introspective ⓘ loyal ⓘ sensitive ⓘ |
| conflictType |
internal conflict
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interpersonal conflict ⓘ |
| confronts | trauma of the Holocaust ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Myron Levoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Silverman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Alan & Naomi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Alan & Naomi (1977 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| helps | Naomi Kirshenbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext |
children's literature
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young adult fiction ⓘ |
| mainRelationship | Naomi Kirshenbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Lukas Haas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Alan & Naomi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Brooklyn, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| strugglesToUnderstand | Naomi Kirshenbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudienceContext | middle-grade readers ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
coming of age
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friendship ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ refugees ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
| timePeriod | World War II ⓘ |
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: Alan Silverman Description of subject: Alan Silverman is the introspective Brooklyn boy protagonist of the novel "Alan & Naomi," who struggles to understand and befriend a traumatized refugee girl during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.