Roger Towne
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Roger Towne is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Bernard Malamud’s novel into the screenplay for the 1984 baseball film "The Natural."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Towne canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21836266 — 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: Roger Towne Context triple: [Roy Hobbs (The Natural, 1984 film), screenCharacterBy, Roger Towne]
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A.
Roger Towne
Roger Towne is an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "The Recruit" and contributions to other major Hollywood projects.
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B.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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C.
Christopher Herrmann
Christopher Herrmann is a hardworking, outspoken firefighter and bar co-owner on the television series "Chicago Fire."
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D.
Roy Newman
Roy Newman is known primarily as the son of English-American soccer coach and former player Ron Newman.
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E.
Roy Sharman
Roy Sharman is a film editor known for his work on the 2003 adaptation of "I Capture the Castle."
- 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: Roger Towne Target entity description: Roger Towne is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Bernard Malamud’s novel into the screenplay for the 1984 baseball film "The Natural."
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A.
Roger Towne
Roger Towne is an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "The Recruit" and contributions to other major Hollywood projects.
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B.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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C.
Christopher Herrmann
Christopher Herrmann is a hardworking, outspoken firefighter and bar co-owner on the television series "Chicago Fire."
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D.
Roy Newman
Roy Newman is known primarily as the son of English-American soccer coach and former player Ron Newman.
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E.
Roy Sharman
Roy Sharman is a film editor known for his work on the 2003 adaptation of "I Capture the Castle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roy Hobbs in The Natural