Bonnie MacBird
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Sherlock Holmes pastiche writer
actress
film producer
human
novelist
screenwriter
television producer
Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, producer, and actress best known for co-writing the screenplay for the groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction film "Tron" and for her later Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bonnie MacBird canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7494639 — 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: Bonnie MacBird Context triple: [Tron, screenwriter, Bonnie MacBird]
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A.
Goldie Bird
Goldie Bird is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Bird, likely for contributions in a specific professional or public domain.
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B.
Scrappy the Eagle
Scrappy the Eagle is the costumed athletic mascot representing the University of North Texas at its sporting events and campus activities.
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C.
Sam the Eagle
Sam the Eagle is a stern, patriotic blue Muppet known for his serious demeanor and attempts to uphold high moral and cultural standards amid the chaos of the other characters.
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D.
Ernie the Eagle
Ernie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot representing Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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E.
Trixie Delight
Trixie Delight is a glamorous, manipulative carnival performer who becomes a disruptive presence in the lives of a con man and a young girl in the 1973 film "Paper Moon."
- 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: Bonnie MacBird Target entity description: Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, producer, and actress best known for co-writing the screenplay for the groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction film "Tron" and for her later Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels.
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A.
Goldie Bird
Goldie Bird is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Bird, likely for contributions in a specific professional or public domain.
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B.
Scrappy the Eagle
Scrappy the Eagle is the costumed athletic mascot representing the University of North Texas at its sporting events and campus activities.
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C.
Sam the Eagle
Sam the Eagle is a stern, patriotic blue Muppet known for his serious demeanor and attempts to uphold high moral and cultural standards amid the chaos of the other characters.
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D.
Ernie the Eagle
Ernie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot representing Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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E.
Trixie Delight
Trixie Delight is a glamorous, manipulative carnival performer who becomes a disruptive presence in the lives of a con man and a young girl in the 1973 film "Paper Moon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes pastiche writer
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actress ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWroteScreenplayFor | Tron ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Sherlock Holmes pastiches
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crime fiction ⓘ film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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novels ⓘ television ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing the screenplay of the 1982 film Tron
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writing Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Art in the Blood
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The Devil’s Due ⓘ The Three Locks ⓘ Tron ⓘ Unquiet Spirits ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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novelist ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| series | Sherlock Holmes Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (MacBird series) ⓘ |
| workedOn | Tron ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| wroteFictionalCharacter |
Dr. John Watson (pastiche)
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linked to:
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes (pastiche) ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
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: Bonnie MacBird Description of subject: Bonnie MacBird is an American writer, producer, and actress best known for co-writing the screenplay for the groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction film "Tron" and for her later Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.