S. N. Behrman
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S. N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter renowned for his sophisticated Broadway comedies and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S. N. Behrman canonical | 9 |
| Behrman | 1 |
| S.N. Behrman | 1 |
| Samuel Nathaniel Behrman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4306438 — 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: S. N. Behrman Context triple: [Queen Christina (1933 film), screenwriter, S. N. Behrman]
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A.
Fred Lebensold
Fred Lebensold was a prominent Canadian architect best known for designing major cultural and performing arts venues across Canada.
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B.
Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor and businessman who played a crucial role in publicizing Oskar Schindler’s story, inspiring the book and film "Schindler’s List."
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C.
Lyonel
Lyonel is a masculine given name most notably borne by the German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger.
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D.
Samuel Lipman
Samuel Lipman was one of the Russian-born Jewish anarchists prosecuted in the 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States for distributing anti-war leaflets during World War I.
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E.
Percy Uris
Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
- 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: S. N. Behrman Target entity description: S. N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter renowned for his sophisticated Broadway comedies and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
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A.
Fred Lebensold
Fred Lebensold was a prominent Canadian architect best known for designing major cultural and performing arts venues across Canada.
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B.
Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor and businessman who played a crucial role in publicizing Oskar Schindler’s story, inspiring the book and film "Schindler’s List."
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C.
Lyonel
Lyonel is a masculine given name most notably borne by the German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger.
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D.
Samuel Lipman
Samuel Lipman was one of the Russian-born Jewish anarchists prosecuted in the 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States for distributing anti-war leaflets during World War I.
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E.
Percy Uris
Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Behrman
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linked to:
S. N. Behrman
|
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
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drama ⓘ film ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| fullName |
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
ⓘ
linked to:
S. N. Behrman
|
| genre |
Broadway comedy
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comedy ⓘ screenplay ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to classic Hollywood films
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sophisticated Broadway comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Biography
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End of Summer ⓘ No Time for Comedy ⓘ Rain from Heaven ⓘ The Cold Wind and the Warm ⓘ The Pirate ⓘ The Second Man ⓘ screenplay for "No Time for Comedy" ⓘ screenplay for "The Pirate" ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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essayist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Broadway
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Hollywood films ⓘ |
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: S. N. Behrman Description of subject: S. N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter renowned for his sophisticated Broadway comedies and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Queen Christina
linked to: S. N. Behrman
linked to: S. N. Behrman
linked to: S. N. Behrman