Charles Beahan
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Charles Beahan was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Beahan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10212354 — 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: Charles Beahan Context triple: [One Night of Love, screenwriter, Charles Beahan]
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A.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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B.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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C.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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D.
John Ahearn
John Ahearn is an American sculptor best known for his life-cast portraits of residents in New York City’s Bronx neighborhood, often created and displayed in collaboration with the local community.
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E.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
- 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: Charles Beahan Target entity description: Charles Beahan was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century Hollywood films.
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A.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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B.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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C.
Charles Dougherty
Charles Dougherty was a prominent 19th-century Georgia jurist and political figure for whom Dougherty County was named.
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D.
John Ahearn
John Ahearn is an American sculptor best known for his life-cast portraits of residents in New York City’s Bronx neighborhood, often created and displayed in collaboration with the local community.
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E.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | film scripts ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | best known for his work on early Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on early 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: Charles Beahan Description of subject: Charles Beahan was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 20th-century Hollywood films.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.