Deric Washburn
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Deric Washburn is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deric Washburn canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008929 — 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: Deric Washburn Context triple: [The Deer Hunter, screenwriter, Deric Washburn]
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A.
Jerry Dandrige
Jerry Dandrige is the charismatic yet sinister vampire antagonist in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night."
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B.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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C.
Kevin Liles
Kevin Liles is an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles at Def Jam Recordings and later at Warner Music Group.
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D.
Ben Esler
Ben Esler is an Australian actor best known for his roles in television dramas and historical series, including a prominent part in the Western series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- 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: Deric Washburn Target entity description: Deric Washburn is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
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A.
Jerry Dandrige
Jerry Dandrige is the charismatic yet sinister vampire antagonist in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night."
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B.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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C.
Kevin Liles
Kevin Liles is an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles at Def Jam Recordings and later at Warner Music Group.
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D.
Ben Esler
Ben Esler is an Australian actor best known for his roles in television dramas and historical series, including a prominent part in the Western series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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feature film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination
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linked to:
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| collaboratedWith |
Louis Garfinkle
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Michael Cimino ⓘ Quinn K. Redeker ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | The Deer Hunter ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
Vietnam War film
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drama film ⓘ war drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter" ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Deer Hunter ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Deric Washburn ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Deric Washburn Description of subject: Deric Washburn is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.