Jack B. Sowards
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Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack B. Sowards canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214797 — 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: Jack B. Sowards Context triple: [Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, screenwriter, Jack B. Sowards]
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A.
John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in Western films and television, as well as voice work in classic Disney animated features.
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B.
Edward H. Plumb
Edward H. Plumb was an American film composer and orchestrator best known for his extensive work on Walt Disney animated features during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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E.
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in numerous films of the 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Jack B. Sowards Target entity description: Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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A.
John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in Western films and television, as well as voice work in classic Disney animated features.
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B.
Edward H. Plumb
Edward H. Plumb was an American film composer and orchestrator best known for his extensive work on Walt Disney animated features during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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E.
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in numerous films of the 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | best known for writing the screenplay for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ⓘ |
| notableWork | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ⓘ |
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: Jack B. Sowards Description of subject: Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.