Calder Willingham
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Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, satirical writing and contributions to several notable mid-20th-century films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Calder Willingham canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172887 — 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: Calder Willingham Context triple: [The Graduate, screenwriter, Calder Willingham]
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A.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
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B.
Reginald Denny
Reginald Denny was an English-born actor and occasional aviator and inventor, best known for his prolific work in early Hollywood films and serials during the 1920s–1940s.
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C.
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Emma Tillinger Koskoff is an American film producer best known for her longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on acclaimed films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, and The Irishman.
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D.
Martin Richard
Martin Richard was an eight-year-old boy from Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was tragically killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and later became a symbol of peace and resilience for the city.
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E.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
- 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: Calder Willingham Target entity description: Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, satirical writing and contributions to several notable mid-20th-century films.
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A.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
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B.
Reginald Denny
Reginald Denny was an English-born actor and occasional aviator and inventor, best known for his prolific work in early Hollywood films and serials during the 1920s–1940s.
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C.
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Emma Tillinger Koskoff is an American film producer best known for her longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on acclaimed films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, and The Irishman.
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D.
Martin Richard
Martin Richard was an eight-year-old boy from Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was tragically killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and later became a symbol of peace and resilience for the city.
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E.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Calder Willingham Description of subject: Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, satirical writing and contributions to several notable mid-20th-century films.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mr. Robinson in The Graduate
subject linked to:
General George Broulard in Paths of Glory
subject linked to:
seduction by Mrs. Robinson