Edgar Allan Woolf
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Edgar Allan Woolf was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgar Allan Woolf canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379803 — 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: Edgar Allan Woolf Context triple: [The Wizard of Oz, screenwriter, Edgar Allan Woolf]
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A.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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B.
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was a British political scientist, philosopher, and writer associated with Cambridge, best known for his advocacy of internationalism and his role in inspiring the creation of the League of Nations.
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C.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
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D.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
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E.
Elizabeth Browning Donner
Elizabeth Browning Donner was the second wife of Elliott Roosevelt, son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
- 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: Edgar Allan Woolf Target entity description: Edgar Allan Woolf was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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B.
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was a British political scientist, philosopher, and writer associated with Cambridge, best known for his advocacy of internationalism and his role in inspiring the creation of the League of Nations.
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C.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
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D.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
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E.
Elizabeth Browning Donner
Elizabeth Browning Donner was the second wife of Elliott Roosevelt, son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American cinema
ⓘ
20th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| basedOn | L. Frank Baum's Oz books (for his work on The Wizard of Oz screenplay) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | screenplay of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) ⓘ |
| employer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| familyName |
Woolf
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linked to:
Leonard Woolf
|
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Edgar ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Edgar Allan Woolf ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the screenplay of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wizard of Oz
|
| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf |
American dramatists and playwrights
ⓘ
American screenwriters ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ |
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: Edgar Allan Woolf Description of subject: Edgar Allan Woolf was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.