Francis Goodrich
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Francis Goodrich was an American screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with his wife Albert Hackett on classic Hollywood films such as "The Thin Man" series and "It's a Wonderful Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francis Goodrich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11694003 — 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: Francis Goodrich Context triple: [Gold Diggers of 1935, screenwriter, Francis Goodrich]
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A.
Arthur Twining Hadley
Arthur Twining Hadley was an American economist and educator who served as president of Yale University in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin was an American film producer and director best known for his work during Hollywood's Golden Age, including acclaimed literary adaptations.
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
Leslie Brooks
Leslie Brooks was an American film actress of the 1940s best known for her roles in film noir and crime dramas.
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E.
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Goodrich
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Goodrich was an American figure known primarily for his association with the Goodrich family name, which is linked to notable industrial and commercial enterprises in the United States.
- 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: Francis Goodrich Target entity description: Francis Goodrich was an American screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with his wife Albert Hackett on classic Hollywood films such as "The Thin Man" series and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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A.
Arthur Twining Hadley
Arthur Twining Hadley was an American economist and educator who served as president of Yale University in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin was an American film producer and director best known for his work during Hollywood's Golden Age, including acclaimed literary adaptations.
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
Leslie Brooks
Leslie Brooks was an American film actress of the 1940s best known for her roles in film noir and crime dramas.
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E.
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Goodrich
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield Goodrich was an American figure known primarily for his association with the Goodrich family name, which is linked to notable industrial and commercial enterprises in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
NERFINISHED
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Tony Award for Best Play NERFINISHED ⓘ Writers Guild of America Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Albert Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
playwriting ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
film screenplay
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| givenName | Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Francis Goodrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborative screenplays with Albert Hackett ⓘ |
| notableWork |
After the Thin Man
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Another Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Easter Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ Father of the Bride NERFINISHED ⓘ Father’s Little Dividend NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Good Old Summertime NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s a Wonderful Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow of the Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Song of the Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Diary of Anne Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ The Diary of Anne Frank (stage adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Harvey Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kissing Bandit NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long, Long Trailer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mighty Barnum NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pirate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Man Goes Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| partnerInWriting | Albert Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Albert Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
NERFINISHED
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Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Pictures 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: Francis Goodrich Description of subject: Francis Goodrich was an American screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with his wife Albert Hackett on classic Hollywood films such as "The Thin Man" series and "It's a Wonderful Life."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.