Larry Gross
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Larry Gross is an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential films of the 1980s and 1990s, including the action-comedy classic "48 Hrs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Gross canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3298181 — 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: Larry Gross Context triple: [48 Hrs., screenwriter, Larry Gross]
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A.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn is a British director, screenwriter, and actor best known for co-creating the political satire series "Yes Minister" and directing hit comedy films such as "My Cousin Vinny."
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C.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter best known for his provocative, high-profile Hollywood thrillers of the late 20th century.
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D.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Lawrence Gresser
Lawrence Gresser was an American politician who served as the inaugural Manhattan Borough President in New York City.
- 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: Larry Gross Target entity description: Larry Gross is an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential films of the 1980s and 1990s, including the action-comedy classic "48 Hrs."
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A.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn is a British director, screenwriter, and actor best known for co-creating the political satire series "Yes Minister" and directing hit comedy films such as "My Cousin Vinny."
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C.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter best known for his provocative, high-profile Hollywood thrillers of the late 20th century.
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D.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Lawrence Gresser
Lawrence Gresser was an American politician who served as the inaugural Manhattan Borough President in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gross ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action comedy film
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action film ⓘ crime film ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
screenplay for 48 Hrs.
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writing influential American genre films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Larry Gross ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
48 Hrs.
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Another 48 Hrs. ⓘ Geronimo: An American Legend ⓘ Streets of Fire ⓘ True Crime ⓘ |
| occupation |
film critic
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Larry Gross ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
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: Larry Gross Description of subject: Larry Gross is an American screenwriter best known for his work on influential films of the 1980s and 1990s, including the action-comedy classic "48 Hrs."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.