Evan Hunter
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Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evan Hunter canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884216 — 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.
Target entity: Evan Hunter Context triple: [The Birds, screenwriter, Evan Hunter]
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Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
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Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
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Jack Traven
Jack Traven is the daring Los Angeles police officer protagonist portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the action film "Speed."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Evan Hunter Target entity description: Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
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A.
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
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B.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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C.
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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D.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
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E.
Jack Traven
Jack Traven is the daring Los Angeles police officer protagonist portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the action film "Speed."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Evan Hunter Description of subject: Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.