Walter Bullock

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human lyricist screenwriter songwriter

Walter Bullock was an American songwriter and screenwriter best known for his work on Hollywood musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Label	Occurrences
Walter Bullock canonical	3

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12833495 — 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: Walter Bullock
Context triple: [The Gang's All Here (1943 film), screenwriter, Walter Bullock]

A. John H. Ketcham
John H. Ketcham was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army officer who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
B. R. T. Buell
R. T. Buell was a prominent local figure and landowner in California whose influence led to the city of Buellton being named in his honor.
C. Nelson Davis
Nelson Davis was the second husband of abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, with whom he shared a long marriage after the Civil War.
D. LeRoy Apker
LeRoy Apker was an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics and for his work at General Electric.
E. Granville Hicks
Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
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: Walter Bullock
Target entity description: Walter Bullock was an American songwriter and screenwriter best known for his work on Hollywood musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.

A. John H. Ketcham
John H. Ketcham was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army officer who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
B. R. T. Buell
R. T. Buell was a prominent local figure and landowner in California whose influence led to the city of Buellton being named in his honor.
C. Nelson Davis
Nelson Davis was the second husband of abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, with whom he shared a long marriage after the Civil War.
D. LeRoy Apker
LeRoy Apker was an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics and for his work at General Electric.
E. Granville Hicks
Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (28)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ lyricist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
employer	Hollywood film studios ⓘ linked to: Hollywood studios
fieldOfWork	film industry ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ songwriting ⓘ
genre	film music ⓘ musical film ⓘ popular music ⓘ
hasGender	male ⓘ
industry	film ⓘ music ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
notableFor	screenplays for musical films ⓘ work on Hollywood musicals in the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ writing songs for American films ⓘ
notableWork	Hollywood musicals ⓘ film screenplays ⓘ
occupation	lyricist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Hollywood ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ
workPeriod	1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ