Howard E. Koch
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Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard E. Koch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514950 — 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: Howard E. Koch Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), screenwriter, Howard E. Koch]
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A.
Howard W. Koch
Howard W. Koch was an American film and television producer and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood movies and for serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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B.
Seymour Boorstein
Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
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C.
Irving Gertz
Irving Gertz was an American film composer known for scoring mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, particularly war and science fiction films.
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D.
Harry Fischbeck
Harry Fischbeck was an early American cinematographer best known as one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, helping to establish professional standards and recognition for the craft.
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E.
Ralph Berkowitz
Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
- 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: Howard E. Koch Target entity description: Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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A.
Howard W. Koch
Howard W. Koch was an American film and television producer and director known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood movies and for serving as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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B.
Seymour Boorstein
Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
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C.
Irving Gertz
Irving Gertz was an American film composer known for scoring mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, particularly war and science fiction films.
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D.
Harry Fischbeck
Harry Fischbeck was an early American cinematographer best known as one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, helping to establish professional standards and recognition for the craft.
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E.
Ralph Berkowitz
Ralph Berkowitz was an American pianist, accompanist, and arts administrator known for his influential work in classical music performance and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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playwright ⓘ radio writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Casablanca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
John Houseman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julius J. Epstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Orson Welles NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip G. Epstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1901-12-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-08-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Colgate University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia University Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Howard Eric Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casablanca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In Time to Come NERFINISHED ⓘ Letter from an Unknown Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mission to Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant York NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sea Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
ⓘ
radio producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kingston
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | left-wing ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Stella Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBlacklisted | true ⓘ |
| wroteForMedium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Howard E. Koch Description of subject: Howard E. Koch was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca" and for his involvement in the infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Letter (1940 film)