Walter Newman
E326213
Walter Newman was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Cat Ballou."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Newman canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308256 — 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: Walter Newman Context triple: [The Magnificent Seven (1960 film), screenwriter, Walter Newman]
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A.
Walter Pitman
Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
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B.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
Walter Brewster
Walter Brewster was a prominent local landowner and early settler after whom the Village of Brewster in New York was named.
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E.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Walter Newman Target entity description: Walter Newman was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Cat Ballou."
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A.
Walter Pitman
Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
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B.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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D.
Walter Brewster
Walter Brewster was a prominent local landowner and early settler after whom the Village of Brewster in New York was named.
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E.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | film screenplay ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cat Ballou
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The Magnificent Seven ⓘ |
| occupation | 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: Walter Newman Description of subject: Walter Newman was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Cat Ballou."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.