Ken Nolan
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Ken Nolan is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Mark Bowden’s nonfiction book into the acclaimed war film "Black Hawk Down."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Nolan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351794 — 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: Ken Nolan Context triple: [Black Hawk Down, screenwriter, Ken Nolan]
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A.
David Nolan
David Nolan is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including politicians, athletes, and fictional characters.
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B.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
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C.
Don Nicholl
Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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E.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
- 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: Ken Nolan Target entity description: Ken Nolan is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Mark Bowden’s nonfiction book into the acclaimed war film "Black Hawk Down."
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A.
David Nolan
David Nolan is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including politicians, athletes, and fictional characters.
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B.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
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C.
Don Nicholl
Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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E.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
ⓘ
living person ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| adaptedBook |
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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linked to:
Black Hawk Down
|
| adaptedFrom | Black Hawk Down ⓘ |
| adaptedWorkOf | Mark Bowden ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Mark Bowden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | war film ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewAbout | writing Black Hawk Down ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Black Hawk Down
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adapting nonfiction books into films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | adapting Mark Bowden’s nonfiction book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War into a feature film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Black Hawk Down ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| writesInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Black Hawk Down ⓘ |
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: Ken Nolan Description of subject: Ken Nolan is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Mark Bowden’s nonfiction book into the acclaimed war film "Black Hawk Down."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.