Henry Myers
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Henry Myers was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Myers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514712 — 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: Henry Myers Context triple: [Destry Rides Again, screenwriter, Henry Myers]
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A.
Henry McMorran
Henry McMorran was a prominent local figure and benefactor in Port Huron, Michigan, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main event center being named in his honor.
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B.
Henry Sherwin
Henry Sherwin was an American businessman best known as the co-founder of the Sherwin-Williams Company, a major paint and coatings manufacturer.
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C.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones was a prominent 19th-century Welsh settler and leader of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina.
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E.
Harry Sanborn
Harry Sanborn is a wealthy, commitment-averse older music executive who undergoes an unexpected romantic and personal awakening in the romantic comedy film "Something's Gotta Give."
- 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: Henry Myers Target entity description: Henry Myers was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Henry McMorran
Henry McMorran was a prominent local figure and benefactor in Port Huron, Michigan, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main event center being named in his honor.
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B.
Henry Sherwin
Henry Sherwin was an American businessman best known as the co-founder of the Sherwin-Williams Company, a major paint and coatings manufacturer.
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C.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones was a prominent 19th-century Welsh settler and leader of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina.
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E.
Harry Sanborn
Harry Sanborn is a wealthy, commitment-averse older music executive who undergoes an unexpected romantic and personal awakening in the romantic comedy film "Something's Gotta Give."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | screenwriting ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| notability | best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Henry Myers Description of subject: Henry Myers was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.