Eric Heisserer
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Eric Heisserer is an American screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer best known for his work on films like "Arrival" and for creating the Netflix series "Shadow and Bone."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Heisserer canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6975648 — 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: Eric Heisserer Context triple: [Arrival, screenwriter, Eric Heisserer]
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A.
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director best known for character-driven dramas such as "Cool Hand Luke" and various notable works of the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Hampton Fancher
Hampton Fancher is an American screenwriter, producer, and former actor best known for co-writing the science fiction films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
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C.
Irwin Kershner
Irwin Kershner was an American film director best known for directing "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back."
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D.
Richard Maibaum
Richard Maibaum was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running work on the James Bond film series.
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E.
John Irvin
John Irvin is a British film director known for his work on war and action dramas, including the 1980 mercenary film "The Dogs of War."
- 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: Eric Heisserer Target entity description: Eric Heisserer is an American screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer best known for his work on films like "Arrival" and for creating the Netflix series "Shadow and Bone."
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A.
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director best known for character-driven dramas such as "Cool Hand Luke" and various notable works of the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Hampton Fancher
Hampton Fancher is an American screenwriter, producer, and former actor best known for co-writing the science fiction films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
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C.
Irwin Kershner
Irwin Kershner was an American film director best known for directing "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back."
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D.
Richard Maibaum
Richard Maibaum was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running work on the James Bond film series.
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E.
John Irvin
John Irvin is a British film director known for his work on war and action dramas, including the 1980 mercenary film "The Dogs of War."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book writer
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Story of Your Life
NERFINISHED
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Story of Your Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Eric Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Eric Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
creating the Netflix series Shadow and Bone
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screenplay for Arrival ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arrival
NERFINISHED
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Bird Box NERFINISHED ⓘ Bloodshot NERFINISHED ⓘ Final Destination 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hours NERFINISHED ⓘ Lights Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Secret Weapons (comic book) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow and Bone NERFINISHED ⓘ Story of Your Life (screenplay adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
comic book writer
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ showrunner ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Eric Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| showrunner | Eric Heisserer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOn |
Arrival
NERFINISHED
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Bird Box NERFINISHED ⓘ Bloodshot NERFINISHED ⓘ Final Destination 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hours NERFINISHED ⓘ Lights Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Secret Weapons (comic book) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow and Bone NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Eric Heisserer Description of subject: Eric Heisserer is an American screenwriter, producer, and comic book writer best known for his work on films like "Arrival" and for creating the Netflix series "Shadow and Bone."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Colonel Weber (Arrival)
subject surface form:
Story of Your Life