Donald E. Stewart
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Donald E. Stewart was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on "Missing" and his adaptations of Tom Clancy novels such as "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald E. Stewart canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10124538 — 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: Donald E. Stewart Context triple: [Clear and Present Danger, screenwriter, Donald E. Stewart]
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A.
Robert L. Stewart
Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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B.
Harold E. Stine
Harold E. Stine was an American cinematographer known for his work on both film and television, including the movie version of MASH.
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C.
Lewis J. Stadlen
Lewis J. Stadlen is an American character actor known for his extensive work on Broadway and in film and television, often in comedic or sharply drawn supporting roles.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
James L. Massey
James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
- 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: Donald E. Stewart Target entity description: Donald E. Stewart was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on "Missing" and his adaptations of Tom Clancy novels such as "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger."
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A.
Robert L. Stewart
Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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B.
Harold E. Stine
Harold E. Stine was an American cinematographer known for his work on both film and television, including the movie version of MASH.
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C.
Lewis J. Stadlen
Lewis J. Stadlen is an American character actor known for his extensive work on Broadway and in film and television, often in comedic or sharply drawn supporting roles.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
James L. Massey
James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century cinema ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tom Clancy novels ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork | film screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
political thriller ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adaptations of Tom Clancy novels
ⓘ
screenplay for "Missing" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward | Oscar for "Missing" ⓘ |
| notableFor | politically themed screenplays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clear and Present Danger
ⓘ
Missing ⓘ Patriot Games ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn | film ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Clear and Present Danger
ⓘ
Missing ⓘ Patriot Games ⓘ |
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: Donald E. Stewart Description of subject: Donald E. Stewart was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on "Missing" and his adaptations of Tom Clancy novels such as "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.