Michael Weller
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Michael Weller is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film in the 1970s and 1980s, including the screenplay for the movie adaptation of the musical "Hair."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Weller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299728 — 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 Weller Context triple: [Hair (1979 film), screenwriter, Michael Weller]
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A.
Michael Wittenberg
Michael Wittenberg was an investment adviser best known as the late husband of Broadway star Bernadette Peters.
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Bruce Wirth
Bruce Wirth is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country and rock band The Walkabouts.
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D.
Craig Weller
Craig Weller is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
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E.
Craig Weller
Craig Weller is a business figure known for co-founding an enterprise alongside Renee Lawson Hardy.
- 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 Weller Target entity description: Michael Weller is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film in the 1970s and 1980s, including the screenplay for the movie adaptation of the musical "Hair."
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A.
Michael Wittenberg
Michael Wittenberg was an investment adviser best known as the late husband of Broadway star Bernadette Peters.
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Bruce Wirth
Bruce Wirth is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country and rock band The Walkabouts.
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D.
Craig Weller
Craig Weller is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
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E.
Craig Weller
Craig Weller is a business figure known for co-founding an enterprise alongside Renee Lawson Hardy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hair (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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playwriting ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
screenplays for film
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stage plays in the 1970s ⓘ stage plays in the 1980s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | adaptation of stage works for film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dusk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fishgutz NERFINISHED ⓘ Hair (film screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ Loose Ends NERFINISHED ⓘ Moonchildren NERFINISHED ⓘ Spoils of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ballad of Soapy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Hair (1979 film) 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: Michael Weller Description of subject: Michael Weller is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film in the 1970s and 1980s, including the screenplay for the movie adaptation of the musical "Hair."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hair (1979 film)