Victor Heerman
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Victor Heerman was a British-born American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning adaptation of "Little Women" (1933).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor Heerman canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3422789 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor Heerman Context triple: [Little Women (1933 film), screenwriter, Victor Heerman]
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Alan Durband
Alan Durband was a British teacher, writer, and influential drama educator from Liverpool, known for his popular guides to Shakespeare and his impact on English education.
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B.
Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in series such as "Game of Thrones," "Endeavour," and "The Crown."
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C.
Brian Murray
Brian Murray was a South African-born actor and voice artist best known in animation for voicing the cyborg cook John Silver in Disney’s film "Treasure Planet."
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D.
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1940s through the 1970s, often playing gruff, comedic, or villainous supporting roles.
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E.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
- 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: Victor Heerman Target entity description: Victor Heerman was a British-born American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning adaptation of "Little Women" (1933).
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A.
Alan Durband
Alan Durband was a British teacher, writer, and influential drama educator from Liverpool, known for his popular guides to Shakespeare and his impact on English education.
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B.
Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in series such as "Game of Thrones," "Endeavour," and "The Crown."
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C.
Brian Murray
Brian Murray was a South African-born actor and voice artist best known in animation for voicing the cyborg cook John Silver in Disney’s film "Treasure Planet."
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D.
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1940s through the 1970s, often playing gruff, comedic, or villainous supporting roles.
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E.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British emigrant to the United States
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | British-born American ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Sarah Y. Mason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Little Women (1933 film) ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Victor Heerman ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Co-wrote the Academy Award–winning adaptation of Little Women (1933) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Little Women (1933 film)
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screenplays for American films ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Y. Mason ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Victor Heerman Description of subject: Victor Heerman was a British-born American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning adaptation of "Little Women" (1933).
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.