William Monahan
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William Monahan is an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for the crime drama film "The Departed."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Monahan canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790624 — 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: William Monahan Context triple: [The Departed, screenwriter, William Monahan]
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A.
Beau Willimon
Beau Willimon is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer best known for developing the U.S. version of the political drama series "House of Cards."
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B.
Chris Terrio
Chris Terrio is an American screenwriter and director best known for his Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Argo" and his work on major franchise films like "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
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C.
John Logan
John Logan is an acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter known for works such as "Gladiator," "The Aviator," and the James Bond films "Skyfall" and "Spectre."
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D.
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks was a British television writer and script editor best known for his extensive work on Doctor Who and his influential contributions to the series’ mythology.
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E.
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer best known for scoring the Harry Potter films "Order of the Phoenix" and "Half-Blood Prince."
- 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: William Monahan Target entity description: William Monahan is an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for the crime drama film "The Departed."
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A.
Beau Willimon
Beau Willimon is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer best known for developing the U.S. version of the political drama series "House of Cards."
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B.
Chris Terrio
Chris Terrio is an American screenwriter and director best known for his Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Argo" and his work on major franchise films like "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
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C.
John Logan
John Logan is an acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter known for works such as "Gladiator," "The Aviator," and the James Bond films "Skyfall" and "Spectre."
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D.
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks was a British television writer and script editor best known for his extensive work on Doctor Who and his influential contributions to the series’ mythology.
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E.
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer best known for scoring the Harry Potter films "Order of the Phoenix" and "Half-Blood Prince."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: William Monahan Description of subject: William Monahan is an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for the crime drama film "The Departed."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.