Arnold Perl
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Arnold Perl was an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on socially conscious films and television, including co-writing the screenplay that formed the basis for Spike Lee’s 1992 film "Malcolm X."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arnold Perl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4267901 — 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: Arnold Perl Context triple: [Malcolm X (1992 film), screenwriter, Arnold Perl]
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A.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
William Perlberg
William Perlberg was a prominent American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of successful comedies and dramas.
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C.
Bernard Drachman
Bernard Drachman was an American Orthodox rabbi and scholar who played a key role in shaping modern Jewish education and religious life in the United States.
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D.
Alfred Teitelbaum
Alfred Teitelbaum, better known as Alfred Tarski, was a Polish-American logician and mathematician renowned for his foundational work in model theory, formal semantics, and the concept of truth in formalized languages.
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E.
Irving Shapiro
Irving Shapiro was an influential American corporate executive and lawyer best known for leading DuPont and helping to shape modern U.S. business policy and corporate governance.
- 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: Arnold Perl Target entity description: Arnold Perl was an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on socially conscious films and television, including co-writing the screenplay that formed the basis for Spike Lee’s 1992 film "Malcolm X."
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A.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
William Perlberg
William Perlberg was a prominent American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of successful comedies and dramas.
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C.
Bernard Drachman
Bernard Drachman was an American Orthodox rabbi and scholar who played a key role in shaping modern Jewish education and religious life in the United States.
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D.
Alfred Teitelbaum
Alfred Teitelbaum, better known as Alfred Tarski, was a Polish-American logician and mathematician renowned for his foundational work in model theory, formal semantics, and the concept of truth in formalized languages.
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E.
Irving Shapiro
Irving Shapiro was an influential American corporate executive and lawyer best known for leading DuPont and helping to shape modern U.S. business policy and corporate governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Autobiography of Malcolm X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | socially conscious drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
socially conscious films
ⓘ
socially conscious television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cotton Comes to Harlem
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East Side/West Side (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Malcolm X (documentary project) NERFINISHED ⓘ Malcolm X (screenplay basis for 1992 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ N.Y.P.D. (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final War of Olly Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| spouse | Nancy Ann Reifer Perl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workUsedAsBasisFor | Malcolm X (1992 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
film
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television ⓘ |
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: Arnold Perl Description of subject: Arnold Perl was an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on socially conscious films and television, including co-writing the screenplay that formed the basis for Spike Lee’s 1992 film "Malcolm X."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Malcolm X (1992 film)