Sarah Y. Mason
E400858
Sarah Y. Mason was an American screenwriter best known for her influential adaptations of classic literature during Hollywood’s early sound era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Y. Mason canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3422788 — 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: Sarah Y. Mason Context triple: [Little Women (1933 film), screenwriter, Sarah Y. Mason]
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A.
Ann Eilbeck Mason
Ann Eilbeck Mason was the wife of American Founding Father George Mason and the matriarch of a prominent Virginia planter family in the 18th century.
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B.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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C.
Elizabeth Champlin Mason
Elizabeth Champlin Mason was the wife of U.S. naval hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, noted for her connection to his prominent role in the War of 1812.
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D.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Laura Florence Calvert
Laura Florence Calvert was the wife of American architect Henry Bacon, best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Sarah Y. Mason Target entity description: Sarah Y. Mason was an American screenwriter best known for her influential adaptations of classic literature during Hollywood’s early sound era.
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A.
Ann Eilbeck Mason
Ann Eilbeck Mason was the wife of American Founding Father George Mason and the matriarch of a prominent Virginia planter family in the 18th century.
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B.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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C.
Elizabeth Champlin Mason
Elizabeth Champlin Mason was the wife of U.S. naval hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, noted for her connection to his prominent role in the War of 1812.
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D.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Laura Florence Calvert
Laura Florence Calvert was the wife of American architect Henry Bacon, best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | film adaptation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptations of classic literature
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work during Hollywood’s early sound era ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Sarah Y. Mason Description of subject: Sarah Y. Mason was an American screenwriter best known for her influential adaptations of classic literature during Hollywood’s early sound era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.