Bernard Waldman
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Bernard Waldman was an American physicist who played a key role in the development and deployment of the first atomic bombs during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Waldman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2198074 — 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: Bernard Waldman Context triple: [Project Alberta, hadMember, Bernard Waldman]
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A.
Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro is an American film composer known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and dramas, including scores for major studio films.
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B.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein was an American screenwriter and poet best known for his witty, sophisticated scripts in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Walter Bergman
Walter Bergman was a civil rights activist and educator best known for his involvement in the 1961 Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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D.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Pandro S. Berman
Pandro S. Berman was a prominent American film producer of Hollywood’s classic era, known for overseeing numerous successful MGM and RKO pictures.
- 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: Bernard Waldman Target entity description: Bernard Waldman was an American physicist who played a key role in the development and deployment of the first atomic bombs during World War II.
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A.
Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro is an American film composer known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and dramas, including scores for major studio films.
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B.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein was an American screenwriter and poet best known for his witty, sophisticated scripts in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Walter Bergman
Walter Bergman was a civil rights activist and educator best known for his involvement in the 1961 Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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D.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Pandro S. Berman
Pandro S. Berman was a prominent American film producer of Hollywood’s classic era, known for overseeing numerous successful MGM and RKO pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Bernard Waldman Description of subject: Bernard Waldman was an American physicist who played a key role in the development and deployment of the first atomic bombs during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.