James R. Webb
E262020
James R. Webb was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the Western and thriller genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James R. Webb canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326024 — 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: James R. Webb Context triple: [Cape Fear (1962 film), screenwriter, James R. Webb]
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A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
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B.
George M. Low
George M. Low was a prominent NASA engineer and administrator who played a key leadership role in the Apollo program and later served as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
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D.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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E.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Hoyt S. Vandenberg was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of Central Intelligence, playing a key role in the development of American air power during and after World War II.
- 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: James R. Webb Target entity description: James R. Webb was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the Western and thriller genres.
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A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
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B.
George M. Low
George M. Low was a prominent NASA engineer and administrator who played a key leadership role in the Apollo program and later served as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
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D.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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E.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Hoyt S. Vandenberg was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of Central Intelligence, playing a key role in the development of American air power during and after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Western genre screenplays
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mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ thriller genre screenplays ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen
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| notableWork |
Apache
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Cheyenne ⓘ How the West Was Won ⓘ The Big Country ⓘ The Man from Laramie ⓘ The Tall Men ⓘ The Wonderful Country ⓘ Vera Cruz ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
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: James R. Webb Description of subject: James R. Webb was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the Western and thriller genres.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!