John Meehan
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John Meehan was an American screenwriter known for his work on early- to mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including notable dramas and comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Meehan canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6503756 — 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: John Meehan Context triple: [Seven Sinners (1940 film), screenwriter, John Meehan]
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A.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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B.
Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
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C.
Justin E. Driscoll
Justin E. Driscoll is an American energy executive who leads the New York Power Authority, the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Michael J. McCulley
Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
- 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: John Meehan Target entity description: John Meehan was an American screenwriter known for his work on early- to mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including notable dramas and comedies.
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A.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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B.
Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
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C.
Justin E. Driscoll
Justin E. Driscoll is an American energy executive who leads the New York Power Authority, the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Michael J. McCulley
Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
early 20th-century Hollywood films
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mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | 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: John Meehan Description of subject: John Meehan was an American screenwriter known for his work on early- to mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including notable dramas and comedies.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.