Marcus Goodrich
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Marcus Goodrich was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his World War I novel "Delilah" and for having been married to actress Olivia de Havilland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Goodrich canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2154230 — 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: Marcus Goodrich Context triple: [Olivia de Havilland, spouse, Marcus Goodrich]
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A.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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B.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey is an American journalist and editor best known for serving in senior leadership roles at The New York Times, including overseeing major news coverage and editorial operations.
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D.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an influential American science fiction and fantasy editor and publisher, known for shaping the careers of numerous prominent genre authors.
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E.
Dan Goodman
Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
- 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: Marcus Goodrich Target entity description: Marcus Goodrich was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his World War I novel "Delilah" and for having been married to actress Olivia de Havilland.
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A.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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B.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
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D.
Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey is an American journalist and editor best known for serving in senior leadership roles at The New York Times, including overseeing major news coverage and editorial operations.
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E.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an influential American science fiction and fantasy editor and publisher, known for shaping the careers of numerous prominent genre authors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeRole |
author
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodrich ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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literature ⓘ |
| genre | war novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| hasWorkInGenre |
historical fiction
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war literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryConflictWrittenAbout | World War I ⓘ |
| notableFor |
World War I novel "Delilah"
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marriage to Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| notableRelation | Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Delilah
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screenplays ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Olivia de Havilland ⓘ |
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: Marcus Goodrich Description of subject: Marcus Goodrich was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his World War I novel "Delilah" and for having been married to actress Olivia de Havilland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.