Maxwell Anderson
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Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and poet known for his influential verse dramas and contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maxwell Anderson canonical | 37 |
| Maxwell Anderson was an American dramatist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201461 — 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: Maxwell Anderson Context triple: [Joan of Arc (1948 film), screenwriter, Maxwell Anderson]
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Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
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B.
Lynn Riggs
Lynn Riggs was an American playwright best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which served as the basis for the landmark musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Chester Kallman
Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist best known for his long-term personal and artistic collaboration with W. H. Auden on numerous opera libretti and translations.
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D.
Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- 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: Maxwell Anderson Target entity description: Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and poet known for his influential verse dramas and contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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A.
Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
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B.
Lynn Riggs
Lynn Riggs was an American playwright best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which served as the basis for the landmark musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Chester Kallman
Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist best known for his long-term personal and artistic collaboration with W. H. Auden on numerous opera libretti and translations.
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D.
Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Maxwell Anderson Description of subject: Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and poet known for his influential verse dramas and contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Atlantic, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Maxwell Anderson
subject linked to:
Rain