Dan Futterman
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Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Futterman canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1795193 — 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: Dan Futterman Context triple: [Capote (film), screenwriter, Dan Futterman]
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A.
Ian Fried
Ian Fried is a screenwriter best known for penning the supernatural thriller film "Spectral."
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B.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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C.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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D.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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E.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
- 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: Dan Futterman Target entity description: Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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A.
Ian Fried
Ian Fried is a screenwriter best known for penning the supernatural thriller film "Spectral."
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B.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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C.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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D.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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E.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Dan Futterman Description of subject: Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Capote (film)