Ernest Lehman
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Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter renowned for adapting major stage works and novels into classic Hollywood films, including North by Northwest, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ernest Lehman canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3169064 — 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: Ernest Lehman Context triple: [The Sound of Music, filmScreenwriter, Ernest Lehman]
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A.
Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon was an American character actor best known for his authoritative comedic roles in classic radio and television sitcoms, particularly in collaborations with Lucille Ball.
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B.
Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
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C.
Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Silliphant was an American screenwriter best known for his prolific work in film and television, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night."
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D.
David Hand
David Hand was an American animator and film director best known for his pioneering work at Walt Disney Studios, including directing classic feature-length animated films.
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E.
Philip Barry
Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
- 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: Ernest Lehman Target entity description: Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter renowned for adapting major stage works and novels into classic Hollywood films, including North by Northwest, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music.
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A.
Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon was an American character actor best known for his authoritative comedic roles in classic radio and television sitcoms, particularly in collaborations with Lucille Ball.
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B.
Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
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C.
Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Silliphant was an American screenwriter best known for his prolific work in film and television, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night."
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D.
David Hand
David Hand was an American animator and film director best known for his pioneering work at Walt Disney Studios, including directing classic feature-length animated films.
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E.
Philip Barry
Philip Barry was an American playwright best known for his sophisticated Broadway comedies of manners, including the classic play "The Philadelphia Story."
- 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: Ernest Lehman Description of subject: Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter renowned for adapting major stage works and novels into classic Hollywood films, including North by Northwest, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Sabrina
subject linked to:
The Rainbird Pattern (novel adaptation work)
subject linked to:
The Rainbird Pattern (novel adaptation work)
subject linked to:
Nonnberg Abbey (in The Sound of Music)