Michael Grais
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Michael Grais is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1982 horror film "Poltergeist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Grais canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342282 — 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: Michael Grais Context triple: [Poltergeist, writer, Michael Grais]
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A.
John Weitz
John Weitz was a German-born American fashion designer and author known for his influential menswear designs and historical writings.
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B.
Larry Stenger
Larry Stenger is one of the original founders associated with the early formation of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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C.
Scott D. Altman
Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Francis J. Mugavero
Francis J. Mugavero was an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Brooklyn and was known for his pastoral outreach to marginalized communities.
- 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: Michael Grais Target entity description: Michael Grais is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1982 horror film "Poltergeist."
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A.
John Weitz
John Weitz was a German-born American fashion designer and author known for his influential menswear designs and historical writings.
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B.
Larry Stenger
Larry Stenger is one of the original founders associated with the early formation of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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C.
Scott D. Altman
Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Francis J. Mugavero
Francis J. Mugavero was an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Brooklyn and was known for his pastoral outreach to marginalized communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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feature film ⓘ film producer ⓘ horror film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Poltergeist ⓘ |
| director | Tobe Hooper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the 1982 horror film Poltergeist ⓘ |
| notableWork | Poltergeist ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| producer | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Grais ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
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: Michael Grais Description of subject: Michael Grais is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the classic 1982 horror film "Poltergeist."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.