Michael Korda
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Michael Korda is a British-born American editor and writer best known for his long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and for his popular biographies and memoirs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Korda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513881 — 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: Michael Korda Context triple: [Alexander Korda, relative, Michael Korda]
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A.
Robert Stein
Robert Stein is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including academia, business, and the arts.
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B.
Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
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C.
Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman was a powerful American talent agent and studio executive who led MCA and Universal, shaping much of Hollywood’s modern business structure and star system.
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D.
John Stanley
John Stanley is a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament for several decades and held multiple ministerial roles in defense and foreign affairs.
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E.
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman was an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Melvin and Howard."
- 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: Michael Korda Target entity description: Michael Korda is a British-born American editor and writer best known for his long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and for his popular biographies and memoirs.
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A.
Robert Stein
Robert Stein is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including academia, business, and the arts.
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B.
Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
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C.
Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman was a powerful American talent agent and studio executive who led MCA and Universal, shaping much of Hollywood’s modern business structure and star system.
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D.
John Stanley
John Stanley is a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament for several decades and held multiple ministerial roles in defense and foreign affairs.
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E.
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman was an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Melvin and Howard."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographer
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editor ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-10-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Le Rosey
NERFINISHED
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Magdalen College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Simon & Schuster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alexander Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biography
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memoir ⓘ popular history ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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historical non-fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.michaelkorda.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Gertrude Musgrove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Michael Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster
ⓘ
popular biographies and memoirs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Charmed Lives
NERFINISHED
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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Country Matters NERFINISHED ⓘ Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ike: An American Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ Power! How to Get It, How to Use It NERFINISHED ⓘ Queenie NERFINISHED ⓘ With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
book editor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| relative | Merle Oberon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Dutchess County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle |
Vincent Korda
NERFINISHED
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Zoltan Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Michael Korda Description of subject: Michael Korda is a British-born American editor and writer best known for his long tenure as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and for his popular biographies and memoirs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.