Joseph Howard
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Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834565 — 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: Joseph Howard Context triple: [Sister Act, screenwriter, Joseph Howard]
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A.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Henry Davison
Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
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C.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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D.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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E.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
- 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: Joseph Howard Target entity description: Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
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A.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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B.
Henry Davison
Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
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C.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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D.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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E.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | writing the 1992 comedy film "Sister Act" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sister Act ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1992 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Joseph Howard ⓘ |
| wrote | Sister Act ⓘ |
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: Joseph Howard Description of subject: Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joseph Howard