Alan R. Trustman
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Alan R. Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan R. Trustman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2273976 — 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: Alan R. Trustman Context triple: [Bullitt, screenwriter, Alan R. Trustman]
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
- 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: Alan R. Trustman Target entity description: Alan R. Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood ⓘ |
| basedOn | United States film industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime film ⓘ |
| hasWorkInGenre |
heist film
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police procedural ⓘ |
| influenced |
later action films
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later crime thrillers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American cinema in the 1960s
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writing classic Steve McQueen films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bullitt
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The Thomas Crown Affair ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedWith | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Bullitt
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The Thomas Crown Affair ⓘ |
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: Alan R. Trustman Description of subject: Alan R. Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.