Polonsky
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Polonsky is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and director Abraham Polonsky, a key figure in mid-20th-century cinema and the Hollywood blacklist era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polonsky canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13475830 — 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: Polonsky Context triple: [Abraham Polonsky, familyName, Polonsky]
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A.
Lubotsky
Lubotsky is the birth surname of American actress and singer Charlotte Rae, best known for her role as Edna Garrett on the sitcoms "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life."
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B.
Peschkowsky
Peschkowsky is the original family surname of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols, reflecting his German-Jewish heritage.
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C.
Lopatynski
Lopatynski is the original Polish family name of Eddie Lopat, a notable Major League Baseball pitcher and later coach.
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D.
Czeremcha
Czeremcha is a village in northeastern Poland that serves as a local railway junction and border-area transport hub near Belarus.
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E.
Korzeniowski
Korzeniowski is a Polish surname most notably borne by contemporary film and television composer Abel Korzeniowski.
- 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: Polonsky Target entity description: Polonsky is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and director Abraham Polonsky, a key figure in mid-20th-century cinema and the Hollywood blacklist era.
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A.
Lubotsky
Lubotsky is the birth surname of American actress and singer Charlotte Rae, best known for her role as Edna Garrett on the sitcoms "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life."
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B.
Peschkowsky
Peschkowsky is the original family surname of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols, reflecting his German-Jewish heritage.
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C.
Lopatynski
Lopatynski is the original Polish family name of Eddie Lopat, a notable Major League Baseball pitcher and later coach.
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D.
Czeremcha
Czeremcha is a village in northeastern Poland that serves as a local railway junction and border-area transport hub near Belarus.
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E.
Korzeniowski
Korzeniowski is a Polish surname most notably borne by contemporary film and television composer Abel Korzeniowski.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeIn | mid-20th-century American cinema ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-12-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-10-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
City College of New York
ⓘ
Columbia Law School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName | Polonsky ⓘ |
| genre | film noir ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Abraham Polonsky ⓘ |
| influenced | politically engaged American filmmaking ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Polish language
ⓘ
Russian language ⓘ Slavic languages ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| notableFor | being blacklisted during the McCarthy era ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Body and Soul
ⓘ
Force of Evil ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beverly Hills ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| spouse | Sylvia Polonsky ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies of the Hollywood blacklist era ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ |
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: Polonsky Description of subject: Polonsky is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter and director Abraham Polonsky, a key figure in mid-20th-century cinema and the Hollywood blacklist era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Polonsky