Fred Haines
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Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred Haines canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4758255 — 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: Fred Haines Context triple: [Ulysses (1967 film), screenwriter, Fred Haines]
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A.
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
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B.
Hurd Hatfield
Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
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C.
Edward Daniels
Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
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D.
Edward E. Carlson
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
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E.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
- 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: Fred Haines Target entity description: Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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A.
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas is an American Republican politician who served as the 80th Governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011.
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B.
Hurd Hatfield
Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
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C.
Edward Daniels
Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
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D.
Edward E. Carlson
Edward E. Carlson was an American hotel executive and civic leader best known for conceiving and championing the Space Needle as the centerpiece of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
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E.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedAuthor | James Joyce ⓘ |
| adaptedWorkFrom |
Ulysses (novel)
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linked to:
Ulysses
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| authorOfSourceWork | James Joyce ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Ulysses (novel)
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linked to:
Ulysses
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Ulysses (1967 film) ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ulysses (1967 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Fred Haines ⓘ |
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: Fred Haines Description of subject: Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fred Haines