Samuel Spewack
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Samuel Spewack was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his collaborative works with his wife Bella Spewack, including the classic musical "Kiss Me, Kate."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Spewack canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5492420 — 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 Spewack Context triple: [Kiss Me, Kate, bookBy, Samuel Spewack]
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A.
Samuel Mohilever
Samuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped inspire and organize religious support for Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
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B.
Samuel Lipman
Samuel Lipman was one of the Russian-born Jewish anarchists prosecuted in the 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States for distributing anti-war leaflets during World War I.
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C.
Louis Bakanowsky
Louis Bakanowsky was an American architect best known as a founding partner of the influential design firm Cambridge Seven Associates.
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D.
Samuel Weiss
Samuel Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public significance is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
- 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 Spewack Target entity description: Samuel Spewack was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his collaborative works with his wife Bella Spewack, including the classic musical "Kiss Me, Kate."
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A.
Samuel Mohilever
Samuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped inspire and organize religious support for Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
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B.
Samuel Lipman
Samuel Lipman was one of the Russian-born Jewish anarchists prosecuted in the 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case Abrams v. United States for distributing anti-war leaflets during World War I.
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C.
Louis Bakanowsky
Louis Bakanowsky was an American architect best known as a founding partner of the influential design firm Cambridge Seven Associates.
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D.
Samuel Weiss
Samuel Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public significance is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Bella Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bella Spewack
NERFINISHED
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Cole Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
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musical theatre ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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musical theatre ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInWork | Kiss Me, Kate (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
book for the musical Kiss Me, Kate
ⓘ
collaborative works with Bella Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Samuel Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Kiss Me, Kate with Bella Spewack and Cole Porter ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boy Meets Girl
NERFINISHED
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Clear All Wires! NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiss Me, Kate NERFINISHED ⓘ Leave It to Me! NERFINISHED ⓘ My Favorite Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Awful Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Bella Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| wroteForMedium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
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 Spewack Description of subject: Samuel Spewack was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his collaborative works with his wife Bella Spewack, including the classic musical "Kiss Me, Kate."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.