Nelson Gidding
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Nelson Gidding was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Robert Wise on films such as "The Haunting" and "The Andromeda Strain."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelson Gidding canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456633 — 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: Nelson Gidding Context triple: [The Haunting (1963 film), screenwriter, Nelson Gidding]
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A.
Giles Wilson
Giles Wilson is one of the sons of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
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B.
Felix Graham
Felix Graham is the idealistic young barrister protagonist of Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," noted for his strong moral principles and romantic entanglements.
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C.
Ralph Dawson
Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Norm Charlton
Norm Charlton is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as one of the dominant "Nasty Boys" bullpen trio for the Cincinnati Reds during their early 1990s success.
- 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: Nelson Gidding Target entity description: Nelson Gidding was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Robert Wise on films such as "The Haunting" and "The Andromeda Strain."
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A.
Giles Wilson
Giles Wilson is one of the sons of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
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B.
Felix Graham
Felix Graham is the idealistic young barrister protagonist of Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," noted for his strong moral principles and romantic entanglements.
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C.
Ralph Dawson
Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Norm Charlton
Norm Charlton is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as one of the dominant "Nasty Boys" bullpen trio for the Cincinnati Reds during their early 1990s success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gidding ⓘ |
| givenName | Nelson ⓘ |
| name | Nelson Gidding self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with director Robert Wise
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screenplay for The Andromeda Strain ⓘ screenplay for The Haunting ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Want to Live!
ⓘ
I Want to Live! ⓘ
surface form:
I Want to Live! (1958 film screenplay)
I Want to Live! ⓘ
surface form:
I Want to Live! (television adaptation)
Nine Hours to Rama ⓘ Nine Hours to Rama (1963 film screenplay) ⓘ Nine Hours to Rama (television adaptation) ⓘ Odds Against Tomorrow ⓘ Odds Against Tomorrow ⓘ
surface form:
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959 film screenplay)
Odds Against Tomorrow ⓘ
surface form:
Odds Against Tomorrow (television adaptation)
The Andromeda Strain ⓘ The Andromeda Strain ⓘ
surface form:
The Andromeda Strain (1971 film screenplay)
The Andromeda Strain ⓘ
surface form:
The Andromeda Strain (screenplay adaptation)
The Andromeda Strain ⓘ
surface form:
The Andromeda Strain (television adaptation)
The Bigamist ⓘ
surface form:
The Bigamist (1953 film screenplay)
The Bigamist ⓘ
surface form:
The Bigamist (screenplay)
The Bigamist ⓘ
surface form:
The Bigamist (television adaptation)
The Haunting ⓘ The Haunting ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (1963 film screenplay)
The Haunting ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting (television adaptation)
The Haunting ⓘ
surface form:
The Haunting of Hill House (screenplay adaptation)
The Helen Morgan Story ⓘ The Helen Morgan Story (1957 film screenplay) ⓘ The Alcoa Hour ⓘ
surface form:
The Helen Morgan Story (television adaptation)
LZ 129 Hindenburg ⓘ
surface form:
The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg (1975 film screenplay) ⓘ The Hindenburg (screenplay) ⓘ The Hindenburg (television adaptation) ⓘ The Lathe of Heaven ⓘ
surface form:
The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV film teleplay)
The Lathe of Heaven ⓘ
surface form:
The Lathe of Heaven (teleplay)
The Lathe of Heaven ⓘ
surface form:
The Lathe of Heaven (television adaptation)
The Long Night ⓘ The Long Night (1947 film screenplay) ⓘ The Long Night ⓘ
surface form:
The Long Night (television adaptation)
The Man Who Never Was (screenplay) ⓘ
surface form:
The Man Who Never Was (1956 film screenplay)
The Man Who Never Was (screenplay) ⓘ The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation) ⓘ The Other Side of Midnight ⓘ
surface form:
The Other Side of Midnight (1977 film screenplay)
The Other Side of Midnight ⓘ
surface form:
The Other Side of Midnight (screenplay)
The Other Side of Midnight ⓘ
surface form:
The Other Side of Midnight (television adaptation)
The River Rat ⓘ The River Rat (1984 film screenplay) ⓘ The River Rat (television adaptation) ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television writer ⓘ |
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: Nelson Gidding Description of subject: Nelson Gidding was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Robert Wise on films such as "The Haunting" and "The Andromeda Strain."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Haunting (1963 film)