Lynn Perkins
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Lynn Perkins was a screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for crafting stories for action-packed war and adventure films such as *The Fighting Marines*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lynn Perkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8607552 — 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: Lynn Perkins Context triple: [The Fighting Marines, screenwriter, Lynn Perkins]
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
Kathleen Rowell
Kathleen Rowell is an American screenwriter best known for adapting S. E. Hinton’s novel into the 1983 film "The Outsiders."
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C.
Anne Leahy
Anne Leahy is a Canadian diplomat and academic known for her service as ambassador to countries including Russia and the Holy See and for her expertise in international relations and religious diplomacy.
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D.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
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E.
Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s Hollywood dramas and crime 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: Lynn Perkins Target entity description: Lynn Perkins was a screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for crafting stories for action-packed war and adventure films such as *The Fighting Marines*.
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A.
Nancy Shevell
Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman and heiress best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to musician Paul McCartney.
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B.
Kathleen Rowell
Kathleen Rowell is an American screenwriter best known for adapting S. E. Hinton’s novel into the 1983 film "The Outsiders."
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C.
Anne Leahy
Anne Leahy is a Canadian diplomat and academic known for her service as ambassador to countries including Russia and the Holy See and for her expertise in international relations and religious diplomacy.
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D.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
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E.
Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | early sound era of Hollywood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
adventure film ⓘ war film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crafting stories for action-packed war films
ⓘ
crafting stories for adventure films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Fighting Marines ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lynn Perkins ⓘ |
| 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: Lynn Perkins Description of subject: Lynn Perkins was a screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for crafting stories for action-packed war and adventure films such as *The Fighting Marines*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lynn Perkins