Arthur Goldman
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Arthur Goldman is the enigmatic, morally ambiguous Jewish Holocaust survivor at the center of Robert Shaw’s play and film "The Man in the Glass Booth," whose identity and past war crimes are called into question during a dramatic trial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur Goldman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454023 — 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: Arthur Goldman Context triple: [The Man in the Glass Booth, protagonist, Arthur Goldman]
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A.
Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman was an American philanthropist and environmentalist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize and supporting public policy and environmental causes.
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B.
Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick was an American filmmaker best known for his bold, often controversial adaptations of major literary works, including James Joyce’s "Ulysses" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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C.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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D.
Morleigh Steinberg
Morleigh Steinberg is an American modern dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker known for her work with the dance company MOMIX and her long-term creative and personal partnership with U2 guitarist The Edge.
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E.
M. L. Rosenthal
M. L. Rosenthal was an influential American literary critic and poet best known for introducing and defining the concept of "confessional" poetry in modern literature.
- 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: Arthur Goldman Target entity description: Arthur Goldman is the enigmatic, morally ambiguous Jewish Holocaust survivor at the center of Robert Shaw’s play and film "The Man in the Glass Booth," whose identity and past war crimes are called into question during a dramatic trial.
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A.
Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman was an American philanthropist and environmentalist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize and supporting public policy and environmental causes.
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B.
Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick was an American filmmaker best known for his bold, often controversial adaptations of major literary works, including James Joyce’s "Ulysses" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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C.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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D.
Morleigh Steinberg
Morleigh Steinberg is an American modern dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker known for her work with the dance company MOMIX and her long-term creative and personal partnership with U2 guitarist The Edge.
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E.
M. L. Rosenthal
M. L. Rosenthal was an influential American literary critic and poet best known for introducing and defining the concept of "confessional" poetry in modern literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust survivor (fictional)
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Man in the Glass Booth
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The Man in the Glass Booth (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Man in the Glass Booth (play)
The Man in the Glass Booth (play) ⓘ
linked to:
The Man in the Glass Booth
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| associatedWorkGenre |
Holocaust drama
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drama ⓘ |
| backgroundInStory | wealthy Jewish industrialist (apparent) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
enigmatic
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morally ambiguous ⓘ unreliable ⓘ |
| conflictType |
legal conflict
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psychological conflict ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Shaw ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional Holocaust survivor ⓘ |
| identityStatus | uncertain ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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stage ⓘ |
| moralStatus | ambiguous ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to blur line between victim and perpetrator
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to question reliability of historical testimony ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central figure in a war-crimes trial
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protagonist of The Man in the Glass Booth ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American (apparent) ⓘ |
| plotElement |
accused of Nazi war crimes
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identity called into question ⓘ subject of a dramatic trial ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Maximilian Schell ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| settingContext | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
Holocaust memory
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guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ justice ⓘ responsibility for war crimes ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| workForm |
screenplay character
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stage play character ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Arthur Goldman Description of subject: Arthur Goldman is the enigmatic, morally ambiguous Jewish Holocaust survivor at the center of Robert Shaw’s play and film "The Man in the Glass Booth," whose identity and past war crimes are called into question during a dramatic trial.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.