Abraham Polonsky
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Abraham Polonsky was an American screenwriter and director known for his socially conscious, politically charged films and for being blacklisted during the Hollywood Red Scare.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham Polonsky canonical | 18 |
| Abraham Lincoln Polonsky | 1 |
| Dmytryk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3017465 — 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: Abraham Polonsky Context triple: [Body and Soul (1947 film), screenwriter, Abraham Polonsky]
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Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his distinctive, character-driven television dramas and films.
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Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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C.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
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D.
Avram Finkelstein
Avram Finkelstein is an American artist, writer, and activist best known as a founding member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury and for co-creating the iconic "Silence = Death" poster.
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E.
Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born film director known for his work in Hollywood and Europe, particularly for psychologically intense dramas and wartime films.
- 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: Abraham Polonsky Target entity description: Abraham Polonsky was an American screenwriter and director known for his socially conscious, politically charged films and for being blacklisted during the Hollywood Red Scare.
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A.
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his distinctive, character-driven television dramas and films.
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B.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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C.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
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D.
Avram Finkelstein
Avram Finkelstein is an American artist, writer, and activist best known as a founding member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury and for co-creating the iconic "Silence = Death" poster.
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E.
Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born film director known for his work in Hollywood and Europe, particularly for psychologically intense dramas and wartime films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Abraham Polonsky Description of subject: Abraham Polonsky was an American screenwriter and director known for his socially conscious, politically charged films and for being blacklisted during the Hollywood Red Scare.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Body and Soul
linked to: Abraham Polonsky
linked to: Abraham Polonsky
subject linked to:
Tucker’s People
subject linked to:
Ira Wolfert