Jules Furthman
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Jules Furthman was an American screenwriter renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1940s, including collaborations with directors like Howard Hawks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jules Furthman canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315407 — 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: Jules Furthman Context triple: [The Singing Fool, screenwriter, Jules Furthman]
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A.
David Rose
David Rose was a British-born American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader best known for his work in radio, television, and film music.
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B.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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C.
Bill Kramer
Bill Kramer is an American entrepreneur best known for establishing the iconic independent bookstore and café Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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E.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
- 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: Jules Furthman Target entity description: Jules Furthman was an American screenwriter renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1940s, including collaborations with directors like Howard Hawks.
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A.
David Rose
David Rose was a British-born American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader best known for his work in radio, television, and film music.
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B.
Ed Friendly
Ed Friendly was an American television producer best known for developing and producing influential series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s, including landmark works in drama and comedy.
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C.
Bill Kramer
Bill Kramer is an American entrepreneur best known for establishing the iconic independent bookstore and café Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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E.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Jules Furthman Description of subject: Jules Furthman was an American screenwriter renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1940s, including collaborations with directors like Howard Hawks.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Singing Fool (1928 film)
subject linked to:
The Big Sleep
subject linked to:
Blood and Sand
subject linked to:
The Outlaw (1943 film)