Bob Kaufman
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Bob Kaufman was an influential American Beat and jazz poet known for his surreal, improvisational style and his role in the mid-20th-century San Francisco literary scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Kaufman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902606 — 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: Bob Kaufman Context triple: [San Francisco Renaissance, hasParticipant, Bob Kaufman]
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A.
Donald Kaufman
Donald Kaufman is a fictional twin brother of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, created as a meta-character and co-protagonist in the film "Adaptation."
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B.
Tom Garfinkel
Tom Garfinkel is a sports executive best known for leading the business operations and strategic development of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and their home stadium.
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C.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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D.
Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, and director known for his witty romantic comedies in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- 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: Bob Kaufman Target entity description: Bob Kaufman was an influential American Beat and jazz poet known for his surreal, improvisational style and his role in the mid-20th-century San Francisco literary scene.
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A.
Donald Kaufman
Donald Kaufman is a fictional twin brother of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, created as a meta-character and co-protagonist in the film "Adaptation."
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B.
Tom Garfinkel
Tom Garfinkel is a sports executive best known for leading the business operations and strategic development of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and their home stadium.
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C.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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D.
Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, and director known for his witty romantic comedies in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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Beat poet ⓘ human ⓘ jazz poet ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| activeIn |
North Beach literary scene
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San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Garnell Kaufman ⓘ |
| burialPlace | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | emphysema ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-01-12 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | San Francisco Beat and jazz poet ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Kaufman ⓘ |
| genre |
Beat literature
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jazz poetry ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary spoken word poets
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later generations of jazz poets ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Beat Generation writers
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linked to:
Beat Generation
Charlie Parker ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ jazz music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Beat Generation
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Surrealism ⓘ jazz poetry ⓘ |
| name | Bob Kaufman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
oral performance of poetry
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role in San Francisco literary scene ⓘ surreal, improvisational poetic style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Golden Sardine
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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness ⓘ The Ancient Rain ⓘ |
| occupation |
poet
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
New York City
San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| servedIn |
United States Merchant Marine
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linked to:
United States merchant marine
|
| spouse | Eileen Kaufman ⓘ |
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: Bob Kaufman Description of subject: Bob Kaufman was an influential American Beat and jazz poet known for his surreal, improvisational style and his role in the mid-20th-century San Francisco literary scene.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.