Samuel A. Taylor
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Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Vertigo" and for his successful Broadway plays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel A. Taylor canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884166 — 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: Samuel A. Taylor Context triple: [Vertigo, screenwriter, Samuel A. Taylor]
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Arthur B. McBride
Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
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B.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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C.
George R. Roberts
George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
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D.
Walter H. Tyler
Walter H. Tyler was an American art director and production designer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the biblical epic "Samson and Delilah" (1949).
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E.
Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
- 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: Samuel A. Taylor Target entity description: Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Vertigo" and for his successful Broadway plays.
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A.
Arthur B. McBride
Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
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B.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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C.
George R. Roberts
George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
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D.
Walter H. Tyler
Walter H. Tyler was an American art director and production designer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the biblical epic "Samson and Delilah" (1949).
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E.
Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall was an American stage and silent film actor best known for his leading role in D.W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial film "The Birth of a Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
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person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Vertigo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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playwriting ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo
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successful Broadway plays ⓘ |
| notableWork | Vertigo ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Broadway ⓘ |
| wroteFor | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
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: Samuel A. Taylor Description of subject: Samuel A. Taylor was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Vertigo" and for his successful Broadway plays.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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film Vertigo
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Avanti! by Samuel A. Taylor
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Avanti! by Samuel A. Taylor
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Sabrina Fair (play)
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