Cy Howard
E289875
human
radio director
radio producer
radio writer
television director
television producer
television writer
Cy Howard was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director best known for creating the popular radio series "My Friend Irma."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cy Howard canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676930 — 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: Cy Howard Context triple: [Gloria Grahame, spouse, Cy Howard]
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A.
Leslie Harter
Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
David Purviance
David Purviance was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and reformer who played a key role in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
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C.
Lela Rogers
Lela Rogers was an American journalist, screenwriter, and acting coach best known as the mother and early career mentor of Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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D.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
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E.
Michael Learned
Michael Learned is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
- 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: Cy Howard Target entity description: Cy Howard was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director best known for creating the popular radio series "My Friend Irma."
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A.
Leslie Harter
Leslie Harter is a film producer known for her work in Hollywood and for being married to director Robert Zemeckis.
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B.
David Purviance
David Purviance was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and reformer who played a key role in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
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C.
Lela Rogers
Lela Rogers was an American journalist, screenwriter, and acting coach best known as the mother and early career mentor of Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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D.
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American film and television actress best known for her Oscar-winning role in "Written on the Wind" and her later work on the TV series "Peyton Place."
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E.
Michael Learned
Michael Learned is an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
radio director ⓘ radio producer ⓘ radio writer ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| birthName | Seymour Horowitz ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | My Friend Irma ⓘ |
| familyName | Horowitz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
radio
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Seymour ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
entertainment industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Cy Howard ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating the radio series "My Friend Irma" ⓘ |
| notableWork | My Friend Irma ⓘ |
| occupation |
director
ⓘ
producer ⓘ radio writer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Cy Howard Description of subject: Cy Howard was an American radio and television writer, producer, and director best known for creating the popular radio series "My Friend Irma."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
My Friend Irma
subject linked to:
My Friend Irma
subject linked to:
My Friend Irma