David Westheimer
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David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Westheimer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12108406 — 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: David Westheimer Context triple: [Von Ryan's Express, authorOfSourceWork, David Westheimer]
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A.
Sidney Ehrlich
Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
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B.
David H. Steinberg
David H. Steinberg is a television writer and producer best known for his work on American sitcoms, including creating the series "3rd Rock from the Sun."
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C.
Henry Wertheim
Henry Wertheim is a member of the Wertheim family, known primarily in relation to his brother, the American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
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D.
Donald A. Wollheim
Donald A. Wollheim was an influential American science fiction editor, publisher, and author, best known for founding DAW Books and helping to shape modern science fiction and fantasy publishing.
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E.
Peter J. Weinberger
Peter J. Weinberger is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages and tools at Bell Labs, including co-creating the AWK programming language.
- 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: David Westheimer Target entity description: David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
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A.
Sidney Ehrlich
Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
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B.
David H. Steinberg
David H. Steinberg is a television writer and producer best known for his work on American sitcoms, including creating the series "3rd Rock from the Sun."
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C.
Henry Wertheim
Henry Wertheim is a member of the Wertheim family, known primarily in relation to his brother, the American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
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D.
Donald A. Wollheim
Donald A. Wollheim was an influential American science fiction editor, publisher, and author, best known for founding DAW Books and helping to shape modern science fiction and fantasy publishing.
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E.
Peter J. Weinberger
Peter J. Weinberger is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages and tools at Bell Labs, including co-creating the AWK programming language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author | David Westheimer ⓘ |
| basedOn | Von Ryan's Express ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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adventure fiction ⓘ adventure film ⓘ war film ⓘ war novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Other adventure novels
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Other war-themed novels ⓘ Von Ryan's Express ⓘ Von Ryan's Express (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Von Ryan's Express
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| occupation |
author
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: David Westheimer Description of subject: David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the World War II adventure novel that inspired the film "Von Ryan's Express."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.