Michael Markowitz
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Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Markowitz canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597779 — 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: Michael Markowitz Context triple: [Horrible Bosses, screenwriter, Michael Markowitz]
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A.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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B.
Michael Rotenberg
Michael Rotenberg is a television producer and manager best known for his work on popular comedy series including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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C.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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D.
Dan Mindel
Dan Mindel is a British cinematographer known for his work on major blockbuster films, including entries in the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
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E.
Sanford Rothenberg
Sanford Rothenberg was the second husband of actress Fay Wray, known primarily for his marriage to the iconic King Kong star.
- 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: Michael Markowitz Target entity description: Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
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A.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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B.
Michael Rotenberg
Michael Rotenberg is a television producer and manager best known for his work on popular comedy series including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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C.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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D.
Dan Mindel
Dan Mindel is a British cinematographer known for his work on major blockbuster films, including entries in the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
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E.
Sanford Rothenberg
Sanford Rothenberg was the second husband of actress Fay Wray, known primarily for his marriage to the iconic King Kong star.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy writer
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film ⓘ film writer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy writing
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film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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comedy film ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the film "Horrible Bosses" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| wroteFor | Horrible Bosses ⓘ |
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: Michael Markowitz Description of subject: Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.