Erdman Penner
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Erdman Penner was a Canadian-born screenwriter and story artist best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erdman Penner canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T504897 — 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: Erdman Penner Context triple: [Cinderella (1950 film), screenwriter, Erdman Penner]
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A.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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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.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
- 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: Erdman Penner Target entity description: Erdman Penner was a Canadian-born screenwriter and story artist best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
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A.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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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.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney employee
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ story artist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Disney animated features
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surface form:
Walt Disney animated features
|
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1905-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-11-09 ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| familyName | Penner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
screenwriting
ⓘ
story development ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| givenName | Erdman ⓘ |
| industry | animation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Erdman Penner self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to classic Walt Disney animated features ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice in Wonderland
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surface form:
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Cinderella (1950 film) ⓘ Fun and Fancy Free ⓘ
surface form:
Fun and Fancy Free (1947 film)
Lady and the Tramp ⓘ
surface form:
Lady and the Tramp (1955 film)
Make Mine Music ⓘ
surface form:
Make Mine Music (1946 film)
Peter Pan ⓘ
surface form:
Peter Pan (1953 film)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ story artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| workedFor | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| workedOn |
story development for Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
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story development for Cinderella (1950 film) ⓘ story development for Fun and Fancy Free (1947 film) ⓘ story development for Lady and the Tramp (1955 film) ⓘ story development for Make Mine Music (1946 film) ⓘ story development for Peter Pan (1953 film) ⓘ story development for The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949 film) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Erdman Penner Description of subject: Erdman Penner was a Canadian-born screenwriter and story artist best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
subject surface form:
Brave Little Tailor