Stanford Sherman
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Stanford Sherman is an American screenwriter best known for his work on genre films in the 1970s and 1980s, including action-comedies and science fiction/fantasy movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stanford Sherman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8329464 — 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: Stanford Sherman Context triple: [Any Which Way You Can, screenwriter, Stanford Sherman]
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A.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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B.
Jerome D. Mack
Jerome D. Mack was a prominent Las Vegas banker, real estate developer, and philanthropist who played a key role in the city’s growth and civic life.
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C.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
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D.
William Schallert
William Schallert was an American character actor best known for his prolific television work from the 1950s onward, including numerous sitcoms and genre series.
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E.
Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director active in the early 20th century, known for his sophisticated screen presence and for directing early sound films such as "She Done Him Wrong."
- 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: Stanford Sherman Target entity description: Stanford Sherman is an American screenwriter best known for his work on genre films in the 1970s and 1980s, including action-comedies and science fiction/fantasy movies.
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A.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman was an American songwriter best known as one half of the Sherman Brothers duo, who wrote many iconic songs for Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book."
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B.
Jerome D. Mack
Jerome D. Mack was a prominent Las Vegas banker, real estate developer, and philanthropist who played a key role in the city’s growth and civic life.
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C.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
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D.
William Schallert
William Schallert was an American character actor best known for his prolific television work from the 1950s onward, including numerous sitcoms and genre series.
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E.
Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director active in the early 20th century, known for his sophisticated screen presence and for directing early sound films such as "She Done Him Wrong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action comedy film
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fantasy film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
action-comedy films
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genre films in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ science fiction and fantasy movies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Any Which Way You Can
ⓘ
Krull ⓘ The Ice Pirates ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Any Which Way You Can
ⓘ
Krull ⓘ The Ice Pirates ⓘ |
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: Stanford Sherman Description of subject: Stanford Sherman is an American screenwriter best known for his work on genre films in the 1970s and 1980s, including action-comedies and science fiction/fantasy movies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.