Jerome Chodorov
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Jerome Chodorov was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals and comedies in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerome Chodorov canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1920170 — 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: Jerome Chodorov Context triple: [Wonderful Town, bookBy, Jerome Chodorov]
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A.
Peter Israelson
Peter Israelson is a film and music video director best known for directing Whitney Houston’s iconic “Greatest Love of All” music video.
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B.
George Kassabaum
George Kassabaum was an American architect and co-founder of the global design and architecture firm HOK.
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C.
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, peace advocate, and author known for his influential writings on nuclear disarmament and the healing power of positive emotions.
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D.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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E.
Louis Finkelstein
Louis Finkelstein was a prominent American Conservative rabbi and scholar who served as a long-time leader and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
- 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: Jerome Chodorov Target entity description: Jerome Chodorov was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals and comedies in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Peter Israelson
Peter Israelson is a film and music video director best known for directing Whitney Houston’s iconic “Greatest Love of All” music video.
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B.
George Kassabaum
George Kassabaum was an American architect and co-founder of the global design and architecture firm HOK.
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C.
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, peace advocate, and author known for his influential writings on nuclear disarmament and the healing power of positive emotions.
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D.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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E.
Louis Finkelstein
Louis Finkelstein was a prominent American Conservative rabbi and scholar who served as a long-time leader and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| basedOn |
My Sister Eileen
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surface form:
My Sister Eileen (source material for Wonderful Town)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-08-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-09-12 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Broadway theater
ⓘ
surface form:
Broadway theatre
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
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surface form:
Tony Award for Best Musical (for Wonderful Town, as book writer)
|
| notableFor |
Broadway comedies
ⓘ
Broadway theater ⓘ
surface form:
Broadway musicals
screenwriting in Hollywood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Junior Miss
ⓘ
My Sister Eileen ⓘ Three Men on a Horse ⓘ Wonderful Town ⓘ |
| occupation |
librettist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
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surface form:
New York
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Edward Chodorov ⓘ |
| spouse | Norma Barzman ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| wrote |
book for the musical Wonderful Town
ⓘ
play Junior Miss ⓘ My Sister Eileen ⓘ
surface form:
play My Sister Eileen
play Three Men on a Horse ⓘ screenplays for Hollywood films ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jerome Chodorov Description of subject: Jerome Chodorov was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on Broadway musicals and comedies in the mid-20th century.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.