Lester Cole
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Lester Cole was an American screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted during the Red Scare for alleged communist affiliations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester Cole canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4763836 — 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: Lester Cole Context triple: [Objective, Burma!, screenwriter, Lester Cole]
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A.
Lester
Lester is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including the diplomat Seán Lester.
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B.
Lester
Lester is the central character in the 2016 puzzle-platform video game "Mekazoo" (also known as "Makers" in some regions), around whom the game's story and gameplay revolve.
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C.
Lester
Lester is a small town located in Raleigh County in the southern part of West Virginia, United States.
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D.
Lester
Lester is the given name of Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 14th prime minister of Canada.
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E.
Raymond Chambers
Raymond Chambers is an American philanthropist and businessman known for his work in global health initiatives and efforts to combat malaria.
- 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: Lester Cole Target entity description: Lester Cole was an American screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted during the Red Scare for alleged communist affiliations.
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A.
Lester
Lester is a small town located in Raleigh County in the southern part of West Virginia, United States.
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B.
Lester
Lester is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals, including the diplomat Seán Lester.
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C.
Lester
Lester is the central character in the 2016 puzzle-platform video game "Mekazoo" (also known as "Makers" in some regions), around whom the game's story and gameplay revolve.
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D.
Lester
Lester is the given name of Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and 14th prime minister of Canada.
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E.
Raymond Chambers
Raymond Chambers is an American philanthropist and businessman known for his work in global health initiatives and efforts to combat malaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
labor rights in Hollywood
ⓘ
progressive politics in film industry ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
McCarthyism
ⓘ
Red Scare in the United States ⓘ |
| causeOfBlacklisting | alleged communist affiliations ⓘ |
| causeOfCareerInterruption |
Hollywood blacklist
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Red Scare
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| faced |
House Un-American Activities Committee hearings
ⓘ
linked to:
House Un-American Activities Committee
congressional investigation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | motion pictures ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | Jewish ⓘ |
| ideology | Marxism ⓘ |
| legalConsequence | contempt of Congress conviction ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hollywood Ten ⓘ |
| movement | American left-wing politics ⓘ |
| notableEvent | refusal to testify before HUAC ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being blacklisted in Hollywood
ⓘ
being one of the Hollywood Ten ⓘ |
| notableWork | screenplays for Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| politicalAssociation | Communist Party USA ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Red Scare
ⓘ
linked to:
McCarthyism
|
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| wroteUnderBlacklist | using fronts and pseudonyms ⓘ |
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: Lester Cole Description of subject: Lester Cole was an American screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted during the Red Scare for alleged communist affiliations.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.