Axelrod
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Axelrod is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and playwright George Axelrod, known for works like "The Seven Year Itch."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Axelrod canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6180632 — 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: Axelrod Context triple: [George Axelrod, familyName, Axelrod]
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A.
Nowak
Nowak is a very common Polish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, science, and the arts.
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B.
Fiedler
Fiedler is a sharp, idealistic East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
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C.
Nash
Nash is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as civil rights activism, mathematics, and the arts.
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D.
Schelling
Schelling is a prominent German surname most famously associated with the idealist philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
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E.
Rubin
Rubin is a surname most famously associated with American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
- 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: Axelrod Target entity description: Axelrod is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and playwright George Axelrod, known for works like "The Seven Year Itch."
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A.
Nowak
Nowak is a very common Polish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, science, and the arts.
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B.
Fiedler
Fiedler is a sharp, idealistic East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
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C.
Nash
Nash is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as civil rights activism, mathematics, and the arts.
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D.
Schelling
Schelling is a prominent German surname most famously associated with the idealist philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
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E.
Rubin
Rubin is a surname most famously associated with American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Axelrod ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | George Axelrod ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breakfast at Tiffany's (screenplay adaptation)
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
The Manchurian Candidate (screenplay adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
The Manchurian Candidate
The Seven Year Itch ⓘ |
| occupation |
director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Axelrod Description of subject: Axelrod is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and playwright George Axelrod, known for works like "The Seven Year Itch."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.