Roger Soffer
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Roger Soffer is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1996 fantasy comedy film "Kazaam."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Soffer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7442644 — 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: Roger Soffer Context triple: [Kazaam, screenwriter, Roger Soffer]
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A.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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B.
Steven Fierberg
Steven Fierberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television series, including the romantic drama "Love & Other Drugs."
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C.
Ben Sobel
Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
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D.
Glen Sobel
Glen Sobel is an American rock drummer best known for his work with Alice Cooper and various high-profile hard rock and metal acts.
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E.
Roger Birnbaum
Roger Birnbaum is an American film producer and studio executive known for co-founding Spyglass Entertainment and producing numerous mainstream Hollywood films.
- 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: Roger Soffer Target entity description: Roger Soffer is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1996 fantasy comedy film "Kazaam."
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A.
Mark Rosenthal
Mark Rosenthal is an American screenwriter known for co-writing major Hollywood films, including contributing to the story for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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B.
Steven Fierberg
Steven Fierberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television series, including the romantic drama "Love & Other Drugs."
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C.
Ben Sobel
Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
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D.
Glen Sobel
Glen Sobel is an American rock drummer best known for his work with Alice Cooper and various high-profile hard rock and metal acts.
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E.
Roger Birnbaum
Roger Birnbaum is an American film producer and studio executive known for co-founding Spyglass Entertainment and producing numerous mainstream Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Paul Michael Glaser ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
fantasy comedy film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | screenplay for Kazaam ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Kazaam ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Roger Soffer ⓘ |
| starred | Shaquille O'Neal ⓘ |
| wrote | Kazaam ⓘ |
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: Roger Soffer Description of subject: Roger Soffer is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1996 fantasy comedy film "Kazaam."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roger Soffer