Howard Koch
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Howard Koch was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic film "Casablanca" and for his work in radio and Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Koch canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379692 — 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: Howard Koch Context triple: [Casablanca, screenwriter, Howard Koch]
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A.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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B.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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E.
Charles Jacobs
Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
- 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: Howard Koch Target entity description: Howard Koch was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic film "Casablanca" and for his work in radio and Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Neil Goldman
Neil Goldman is a recurring nerdy, socially awkward teenage character in the animated TV series "Family Guy," often portrayed as infatuated with Meg Griffin.
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B.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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E.
Charles Jacobs
Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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human ⓘ radio writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
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linked to:
Academy Award for Best Screenplay
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Casablanca ⓘ |
| familyName | Koch ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
playwriting
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radio writing ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
radio drama
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screenwriting ⓘ stage drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
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| knownFor | co-writing the screenplay of Casablanca ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Howard Koch ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | Casablanca ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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radio dramatist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| wroteForMedium |
film
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radio ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Howard Koch Description of subject: Howard Koch was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic film "Casablanca" and for his work in radio and Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.