Venable Herndon
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Venable Herndon was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1969 counterculture film "Alice's Restaurant," adapted from Arlo Guthrie's song.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Venable Herndon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465186 — 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: Venable Herndon Context triple: [Alice's Restaurant, screenwriter, Venable Herndon]
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A.
Richard Bland
Richard Bland was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and influential patriot leader who played a key role in articulating colonial constitutional rights before the American Revolution.
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B.
George Wythe Randolph
George Wythe Randolph was a Confederate brigadier general and briefly served as the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War.
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C.
Gunning Bedford Jr.
Gunning Bedford Jr. was an American lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who served as a federal judge from Delaware.
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D.
Theodorick Bland
Theodorick Bland was an American physician, planter, and politician from Virginia who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton was an American lawyer, judge, and political leader from Virginia who played a key role in the early governance of the state during the Revolutionary era.
- 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: Venable Herndon Target entity description: Venable Herndon was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1969 counterculture film "Alice's Restaurant," adapted from Arlo Guthrie's song.
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A.
Richard Bland
Richard Bland was an 18th-century Virginia planter, lawyer, and influential patriot leader who played a key role in articulating colonial constitutional rights before the American Revolution.
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B.
George Wythe Randolph
George Wythe Randolph was a Confederate brigadier general and briefly served as the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War.
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C.
Gunning Bedford Jr.
Gunning Bedford Jr. was an American lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who served as a federal judge from Delaware.
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D.
Theodorick Bland
Theodorick Bland was an American physician, planter, and politician from Virginia who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton was an American lawyer, judge, and political leader from Virginia who played a key role in the early governance of the state during the Revolutionary era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedOn | Alice's Restaurant (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Arlo Guthrie
NERFINISHED
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Arthur Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Alice's Restaurant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Arthur Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | film screenplay ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the 1969 counterculture film Alice's Restaurant ⓘ |
| notableWork | Alice's Restaurant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| performer | Arlo Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1969 ⓘ |
| workAdaptedFrom | Alice's Restaurant (song) 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: Venable Herndon Description of subject: Venable Herndon was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1969 counterculture film "Alice's Restaurant," adapted from Arlo Guthrie's song.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.