Michael Herr
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Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent best known for his influential Vietnam War memoir "Dispatches" and his work on screenplays such as "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Herr canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4293963 — 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: Michael Herr Context triple: [The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film), screenwriter, Michael Herr]
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A.
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction works on modern warfare and crime, including the acclaimed book "Black Hawk Down."
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B.
Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan was an Irish-born journalist and historian best known for his meticulously researched World War II books, including the nonfiction work that inspired the film "A Bridge Too Far."
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C.
Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
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D.
J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and author renowned for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on social and political issues.
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E.
H. Halberstam
H. Halberstam was a British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, particularly in the distribution of prime numbers.
- 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: Michael Herr Target entity description: Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent best known for his influential Vietnam War memoir "Dispatches" and his work on screenplays such as "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket."
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A.
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction works on modern warfare and crime, including the acclaimed book "Black Hawk Down."
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B.
Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan was an Irish-born journalist and historian best known for his meticulously researched World War II books, including the nonfiction work that inspired the film "A Bridge Too Far."
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C.
Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist and World War II veteran best known for his gritty, satirical depictions of soldiers and postwar political commentary.
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D.
J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and author renowned for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on social and political issues.
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E.
H. Halberstam
H. Halberstam was a British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, particularly in the distribution of prime numbers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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screenwriter ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Apocalypse Now
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Full Metal Jacket ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredConflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-04-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-06-23 ⓘ |
| employer | Esquire magazine ⓘ |
| familyName | Herr ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary journalism
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screenwriting ⓘ war reporting ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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memoir ⓘ war literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| influenced |
New Journalism
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Vietnam War literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Herr ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Vietnam War reportage
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influential Vietnam War memoir Dispatches ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apocalypse Now
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Dispatches ⓘ Full Metal Jacket ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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screenwriter ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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linked to:
Lexington, Kentucky
|
| placeOfDeath |
Delhi, New York, United States
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linked to:
Delhi, New York
|
| publication |
Esquire
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linked to:
Esquire magazine
|
| residence |
Delhi, New York, United States
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linked to:
Delhi, New York
|
| role |
co-screenwriter of Full Metal Jacket
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co-writer of narration for Apocalypse Now ⓘ |
| spouse | Valerie Herr ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Francis Ford Coppola
ⓘ
Stanley Kubrick ⓘ |
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: Michael Herr Description of subject: Michael Herr was an American writer and war correspondent best known for his influential Vietnam War memoir "Dispatches" and his work on screenplays such as "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket
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