Alvin Sargent
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Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alvin Sargent canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3681408 — 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: Alvin Sargent Context triple: [What About Bob?, writer, Alvin Sargent]
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A.
Frank Sargent
Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
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B.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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C.
Alvin Adams
Alvin Adams was a 19th-century American entrepreneur best known for founding Adams Express Company, one of the earliest and most influential express shipping firms in the United States.
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D.
Russell Harlan
Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
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E.
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
- 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: Alvin Sargent Target entity description: Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
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A.
Frank Sargent
Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
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B.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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C.
Alvin Adams
Alvin Adams was a 19th-century American entrepreneur best known for founding Adams Express Company, one of the earliest and most influential express shipping firms in the United States.
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D.
Russell Harlan
Russell Harlan was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including "Witness for the Prosecution," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Red River."
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E.
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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film screenwriter ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Julia
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Ordinary People
Writers Guild of America Award ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
screenplay for Spider-Man 2
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screenplay for Spider-Man 3 ⓘ screenplay for The Amazing Spider-Man ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-04-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-05-09 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sargent ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alvin ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alvin Sargent self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gambit (1966 film)
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"I Walk the Line" ⓘ
surface form:
I Walk the Line
Julia ⓘ Ordinary People ⓘ Paper Moon ⓘ Spider-Man 2 ⓘ Spider-Man 3 ⓘ Straight Time ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man ⓘ The Sterile Cuckoo ⓘ Unfaithful ⓘ What About Bob? ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan Camden
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Laura Ziskin ⓘ |
| workedOn | Spider-Man film series ⓘ |
| wrote |
screenplay for I Walk the Line
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screenplay for Julia ⓘ screenplay for Ordinary People ⓘ screenplay for Paper Moon ⓘ screenplay for Straight Time ⓘ screenplay for The Sterile Cuckoo ⓘ screenplay for What About Bob? ⓘ |
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: Alvin Sargent Description of subject: Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Flint Marko
subject surface form:
Julia (1977 film)
subject surface form:
Julia (1977 film)