Larry Gelbart
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Larry Gelbart was an American comedy writer best known for co-creating the TV series M*A*S*H and writing sharp, witty scripts for stage, film, and television.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Gelbart canonical | 29 |
| Larry Gelbart (character as written) | 1 |
| Larry Gelbart (for television) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2919286 — 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: Larry Gelbart Context triple: [Tootsie, screenwriter, Larry Gelbart]
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Buck Henry
Buck Henry was an American screenwriter, actor, and director best known for co-writing the landmark film "The Graduate" and co-creating the TV series "Get Smart."
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B.
Ted Healy
Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor best known for creating and leading the act that evolved into The Three Stooges.
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Robert Kurtzman
Robert Kurtzman is an American special effects artist, director, and screenwriter best known as a founding member of KNB EFX Group and for creating the original story for the film "From Dusk Till Dawn."
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Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
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Norman Lear
Norman Lear was an influential American television writer and producer best known for creating groundbreaking sitcoms such as "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Good Times."
- 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: Larry Gelbart Target entity description: Larry Gelbart was an American comedy writer best known for co-creating the TV series M*A*S*H and writing sharp, witty scripts for stage, film, and television.
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A.
Buck Henry
Buck Henry was an American screenwriter, actor, and director best known for co-writing the landmark film "The Graduate" and co-creating the TV series "Get Smart."
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B.
Ted Healy
Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor best known for creating and leading the act that evolved into The Three Stooges.
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C.
Robert Kurtzman
Robert Kurtzman is an American special effects artist, director, and screenwriter best known as a founding member of KNB EFX Group and for creating the original story for the film "From Dusk Till Dawn."
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D.
Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
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E.
Norman Lear
Norman Lear was an influential American television writer and producer best known for creating groundbreaking sitcoms such as "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Good Times."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Larry Gelbart Description of subject: Larry Gelbart was an American comedy writer best known for co-creating the TV series M*A*S*H and writing sharp, witty scripts for stage, film, and television.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Neighbors
linked to: Larry Gelbart
subject linked to:
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie
subject linked to:
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake
linked to: Larry Gelbart