Clayton Frohman
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Clayton Frohman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the World War II drama film "Defiance."
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| Clayton Frohman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12436634 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clayton Frohman Context triple: [Defiance, screenwriter, Clayton Frohman]
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Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
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B.
Ben Fankhauser
Ben Fankhauser is an American stage actor and singer best known for originating the role of Davey in the Broadway production of the musical "Newsies."
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C.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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D.
Martin Cline
Martin Cline is an American geneticist best known for performing one of the first attempts at human gene therapy in the early 1980s, which sparked major ethical debates in biomedical research.
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- 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: Clayton Frohman Target entity description: Clayton Frohman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the World War II drama film "Defiance."
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A.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
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B.
Ben Fankhauser
Ben Fankhauser is an American stage actor and singer best known for originating the role of Davey in the Broadway production of the musical "Newsies."
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C.
Robert Hohman
Robert Hohman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Glassdoor, a popular platform for anonymous employee reviews and salary information.
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D.
Martin Cline
Martin Cline is an American geneticist best known for performing one of the first attempts at human gene therapy in the early 1980s, which sparked major ethical debates in biomedical research.
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedOn | Defiance (screenplay) based on the book "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Defiance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWroteWith | Edward Zwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| hasWorkAdaptationOf | "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans" by Nechama Tec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableActivity | adapting historical material for film ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Edward Zwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the World War II drama film "Defiance" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Defiance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| subjectOf | interviews about the making of "Defiance" ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| wroteGenre |
World War II films
NERFINISHED
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historical drama ⓘ |
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: Clayton Frohman Description of subject: Clayton Frohman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the World War II drama film "Defiance."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.