Marc Norman is a screenwriter
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Marc Norman is an American screenwriter and author best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Love" and for his work chronicling the history of screenwriting.
All labels observed (1)
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| Marc Norman is a screenwriter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12870339 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Marc Norman is a screenwriter Context triple: [What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting, authorOccupation, Marc Norman is a screenwriter]
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A.
Brian Helgeland
Brian Helgeland is an American screenwriter and director best known for his Oscar-winning work on crime dramas and genre films such as L.A. Confidential and Mystic River.
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B.
Zak Penn
Zak Penn is an American screenwriter and director known for his work on major science fiction and superhero films such as "The Avengers," "X2," and "Ready Player One."
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C.
Graham Moore
Graham Moore is an American screenwriter and author best known for his Academy Award–winning adapted screenplay for the film "The Imitation Game."
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D.
Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing the Bourne film series and directing the acclaimed thriller "Michael Clayton."
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E.
Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber is an English playwright, screenwriter, director, and comedian best known for works such as the play and film "Closer."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marc Norman is a screenwriter Target entity description: Marc Norman is an American screenwriter and author best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Love" and for his work chronicling the history of screenwriting.
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A.
Brian Helgeland
Brian Helgeland is an American screenwriter and director best known for his Oscar-winning work on crime dramas and genre films such as L.A. Confidential and Mystic River.
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B.
Zak Penn
Zak Penn is an American screenwriter and director known for his work on major science fiction and superhero films such as "The Avengers," "X2," and "Ready Player One."
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C.
Graham Moore
Graham Moore is an American screenwriter and author best known for his Academy Award–winning adapted screenplay for the film "The Imitation Game."
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D.
Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing the Bourne film series and directing the acclaimed thriller "Michael Clayton."
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E.
Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber is an English playwright, screenwriter, director, and comedian best known for works such as the play and film "Closer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | Shakespeare in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | screenwriting ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout | history of screenwriting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing the film "Shakespeare in Love"
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writing about the history of screenwriting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | co-wrote an Oscar-winning screenplay ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shakespeare in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Marc Norman is a screenwriter Description of subject: Marc Norman is an American screenwriter and author best known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Love" and for his work chronicling the history of screenwriting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting
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authorOccupation
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Marc Norman is a screenwriter
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