Irwin Shaw
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Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irwin Shaw canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5382880 — 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: Irwin Shaw Context triple: [Irwin, hasNotableBearer, Irwin Shaw]
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A.
John O'Hara
John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
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B.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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C.
John Cheever
John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
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D.
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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E.
Reeves McCullers
Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
- 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: Irwin Shaw Target entity description: Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
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A.
John O'Hara
John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
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B.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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C.
John Cheever
John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
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D.
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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E.
Reeves McCullers
Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| child | Adam Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-02-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-05-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brooklyn College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shamforoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| givenName | Irwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Rich Man, Poor Man (television miniseries)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Young Lions (1958 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Irwin Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayals of war and postwar American life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bury the Dead
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rich Man, Poor Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girls in Their Summer Dresses NERFINISHED ⓘ The Troubled Air NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bronx, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Davos, Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Marian Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Acceptable Losses
NERFINISHED
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Bread Upon the Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Bury the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Evening in Byzantium NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ Rich Man, Poor Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Short Stories: Five Decades NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girls in Their Summer Dresses NERFINISHED ⓘ The Troubled Air NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Voices of a Summer Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Irwin Shaw Description of subject: Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.