Irving Ravetch
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Irving Ravetch was an American screenwriter best known for his long-running collaboration with his wife Harriet Frank Jr. on acclaimed films such as "Hud," "Norma Rae," and "The Long, Hot Summer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irving Ravetch canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4890266 — 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: Irving Ravetch Context triple: [The Cowboys, screenwriter, Irving Ravetch]
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A.
Dennis Shryack
Dennis Shryack was an American screenwriter best known for his work on action and comedy films, including collaborations on several Clint Eastwood movies.
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B.
Robert Weinberg
Robert Weinberg is a prominent American cancer biologist best known for his pioneering work on oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, which helped establish the molecular basis of cancer.
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C.
Roger A. Towberman
Roger A. Towberman is a senior enlisted leader in the United States Space Force who became its inaugural Chief Master Sergeant, helping shape the service’s culture and enlisted structure.
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D.
Murray Schisgal
Murray Schisgal was an American playwright and screenwriter known for his offbeat comedies and for co-writing the acclaimed film "Tootsie."
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E.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
- 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: Irving Ravetch Target entity description: Irving Ravetch was an American screenwriter best known for his long-running collaboration with his wife Harriet Frank Jr. on acclaimed films such as "Hud," "Norma Rae," and "The Long, Hot Summer."
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A.
Dennis Shryack
Dennis Shryack was an American screenwriter best known for his work on action and comedy films, including collaborations on several Clint Eastwood movies.
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B.
Robert Weinberg
Robert Weinberg is a prominent American cancer biologist best known for his pioneering work on oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, which helped establish the molecular basis of cancer.
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C.
Roger A. Towberman
Roger A. Towberman is a senior enlisted leader in the United States Space Force who became its inaugural Chief Master Sergeant, helping shape the service’s culture and enlisted structure.
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D.
Murray Schisgal
Murray Schisgal was an American playwright and screenwriter known for his offbeat comedies and for co-writing the acclaimed film "Tootsie."
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E.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Writers Guild of America Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAdaptationsOf |
Elmore Leonard
NERFINISHED
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Larry McMurtry NERFINISHED ⓘ William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1920-11-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Newark, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Harriet Frank Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2010-09-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ravetch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Irving Ravetch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Hud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hombre
NERFINISHED
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Hud NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy’s Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Rae NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark at the Top of the Stairs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long, Hot Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Reivers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Frank Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteForFilm |
Hombre
NERFINISHED
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Hud NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy’s Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Rae NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark at the Top of the Stairs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long, Hot Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Reivers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Irving Ravetch Description of subject: Irving Ravetch was an American screenwriter best known for his long-running collaboration with his wife Harriet Frank Jr. on acclaimed films such as "Hud," "Norma Rae," and "The Long, Hot Summer."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.