Henry Roberts Symonds
E553558
Henry Roberts Symonds was a screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century films such as the drama "Street Angel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Roberts Symonds canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875740 — 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 Roberts Symonds Context triple: [Street Angel, screenwriter, Henry Roberts Symonds]
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A.
Henry Merwin Shrady
Henry Merwin Shrady was an American sculptor best known for his monumental public works, including major Civil War–themed sculptures in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Charles Heath
Charles Heath was a prominent 19th-century English engraver known for his book illustrations and contributions to the popularization of steel engraving.
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C.
Henry Beadman Bryant
Henry Beadman Bryant was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, known for pioneering practical commercial education.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Charles Eliot Ware
Charles Eliot Ware was a 19th-century American physician and Harvard Medical School graduate known for his work in internal medicine and his association with Boston’s medical community.
- 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 Roberts Symonds Target entity description: Henry Roberts Symonds was a screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century films such as the drama "Street Angel."
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A.
Henry Merwin Shrady
Henry Merwin Shrady was an American sculptor best known for his monumental public works, including major Civil War–themed sculptures in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Charles Heath
Charles Heath was a prominent 19th-century English engraver known for his book illustrations and contributions to the popularization of steel engraving.
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C.
Henry Beadman Bryant
Henry Beadman Bryant was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, known for pioneering practical commercial education.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
Charles Eliot Ware
Charles Eliot Ware was a 19th-century American physician and Harvard Medical School graduate known for his work in internal medicine and his association with Boston’s medical community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| genre | drama films ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early 20th-century films
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| notableWork | Street Angel ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workOn | Street Angel ⓘ |
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 Roberts Symonds Description of subject: Henry Roberts Symonds was a screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century films such as the drama "Street Angel."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.