Curtis Kenyon
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Curtis Kenyon was a Hollywood screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for contributing to several American films including the musical drama "Syncopation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curtis Kenyon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812075 — 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: Curtis Kenyon Context triple: [Syncopation, screenwriter, Curtis Kenyon]
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A.
Larry Kenyon
Larry Kenyon is a software engineer best known for his crucial work on performance optimization and system software for the early Apple Macintosh.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
James Kearns
James Kearns is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q."
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D.
Dave Brundage
Dave Brundage is an American professional baseball manager and former minor league outfielder known for his long career managing at various levels in Major League Baseball farm systems.
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E.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
- 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: Curtis Kenyon Target entity description: Curtis Kenyon was a Hollywood screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for contributing to several American films including the musical drama "Syncopation."
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A.
Larry Kenyon
Larry Kenyon is a software engineer best known for his crucial work on performance optimization and system software for the early Apple Macintosh.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
James Kearns
James Kearns is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q."
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D.
Dave Brundage
Dave Brundage is an American professional baseball manager and former minor league outfielder known for his long career managing at various levels in Major League Baseball farm systems.
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E.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hollywood screenwriter
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Syncopation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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musical drama film ⓘ musical drama film ⓘ |
| industry |
American film industry
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linked to:
American cinema
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to American films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Syncopation ⓘ |
| occupation |
film writer
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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: Curtis Kenyon Description of subject: Curtis Kenyon was a Hollywood screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for contributing to several American films including the musical drama "Syncopation."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.