Howard Emmett Rogers
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Howard Emmett Rogers was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for contributing to several notable films in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Emmett Rogers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201083 — 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: Howard Emmett Rogers Context triple: [Viva Villa!, screenwriter, Howard Emmett Rogers]
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A.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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B.
Ben Rogers
Ben Rogers is a lively, boastful boy in Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known for being one of Tom’s close companions in their childhood adventures.
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C.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Will Harridge
Will Harridge was an American baseball executive who served as president of the American League from 1931 to 1959.
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E.
David Edward Hughes
David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
- 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: Howard Emmett Rogers Target entity description: Howard Emmett Rogers was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for contributing to several notable films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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B.
Ben Rogers
Ben Rogers is a lively, boastful boy in Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known for being one of Tom’s close companions in their childhood adventures.
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C.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Will Harridge
Will Harridge was an American baseball executive who served as president of the American League from 1931 to 1959.
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E.
David Edward Hughes
David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood studio era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1890-09-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1971-08-16 ⓘ |
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Paramount Pictures ⓘ Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | film screenplay ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Maisie Gets Her Man
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Maisie Was a Lady ⓘ The Big House (1930 film) ⓘ The Cat and the Canary (1927 film) ⓘ The Thin Man Goes Home ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Hollywood ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ |
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: Howard Emmett Rogers Description of subject: Howard Emmett Rogers was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s early studio era, known for contributing to several notable films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.