Douglas S. Cook
E240454
Douglas S. Cook was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing high-profile action thrillers such as "The Rock" and "Criminal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas S. Cook canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773430 — 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: Douglas S. Cook Context triple: [The Rock, writer, Douglas S. Cook]
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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C.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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D.
Robert S. Boyer
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
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E.
Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller is the son of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and has worked as a film and theater director and producer.
- 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: Douglas S. Cook Target entity description: Douglas S. Cook was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing high-profile action thrillers such as "The Rock" and "Criminal."
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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C.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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D.
Robert S. Boyer
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
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E.
Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller is the son of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and has worked as a film and theater director and producer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film writer
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf |
Criminal
ⓘ
The Rock ⓘ
linked to:
film "The Rock"
|
| coWriterWith | David Weisberg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Cook ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Douglas ⓘ |
| hasMiddleInitial | S. ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing high-profile action thrillers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Criminal
ⓘ
The Rock ⓘ
linked to:
film "The Rock"
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| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Douglas S. Cook Description of subject: Douglas S. Cook was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing high-profile action thrillers such as "The Rock" and "Criminal."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.