Irving Newman
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Irving Newman was an American physician and the father of actor and director Paul Newman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irving Newman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3879139 — 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: Irving Newman Context triple: [Emil Newman, sibling, Irving Newman]
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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C.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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D.
Irving Shapiro
Irving Shapiro was an influential American corporate executive and lawyer best known for leading DuPont and helping to shape modern U.S. business policy and corporate governance.
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E.
Victor Newmark
Victor Newmark is a photographer known for his photographic portrayals of John Teller.
- 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: Irving Newman Target entity description: Irving Newman was an American physician and the father of actor and director Paul Newman.
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Jerome Newman
Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
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C.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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D.
Irving Shapiro
Irving Shapiro was an influential American corporate executive and lawyer best known for leading DuPont and helping to shape modern U.S. business policy and corporate governance.
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E.
Victor Newmark
Victor Newmark is a photographer known for his photographic portrayals of John Teller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| child | Paul Newman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Irving Newman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | medicine ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Paul Newman ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Irving Newman Description of subject: Irving Newman was an American physician and the father of actor and director Paul Newman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.