Norman Matson
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Norman Matson was an American writer and screenwriter best known for co-writing the story that inspired the classic 1942 fantasy-comedy film "I Married a Witch."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norman H. Matson | 1 |
| Norman Matson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7024897 — 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: Norman Matson Context triple: [I Married a Witch, screenwriter, Norman Matson]
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A.
Norman Johnson
Norman Johnson was an American developer and civic leader known for establishing the city of Sunrise in Broward County, Florida.
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B.
Norman Pike
Norman Pike is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pike, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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C.
Norman Milburn
Norman Milburn is a member of the Milburn family associated with famed English footballer Jackie Milburn.
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D.
Norman Riley
Norman Riley is a distinguished mathematician and fluid dynamicist recognized for his influential contributions to theoretical and applied fluid mechanics.
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E.
Norman Ferguson
Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
- 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: Norman Matson Target entity description: Norman Matson was an American writer and screenwriter best known for co-writing the story that inspired the classic 1942 fantasy-comedy film "I Married a Witch."
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A.
Norman Johnson
Norman Johnson was an American developer and civic leader known for establishing the city of Sunrise in Broward County, Florida.
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B.
Norman Pike
Norman Pike is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pike, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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C.
Norman Milburn
Norman Milburn is a member of the Milburn family associated with famed English footballer Jackie Milburn.
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D.
Norman Riley
Norman Riley is a distinguished mathematician and fluid dynamicist recognized for his influential contributions to theoretical and applied fluid mechanics.
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E.
Norman Ferguson
Norman Ferguson was an American animator and film director at Walt Disney Studios, best known for his influential work on classic Disney features during the Golden Age of animation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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fantasy ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
novels
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short fiction ⓘ |
| influencedWork | fantasy-comedy cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the story that inspired the 1942 film "I Married a Witch" ⓘ |
| notableGenre | fantasy-comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork | I Married a Witch ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs |
I Married a Witch (1942 film)
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linked to:
I Married a Witch
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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: Norman Matson Description of subject: Norman Matson was an American writer and screenwriter best known for co-writing the story that inspired the classic 1942 fantasy-comedy film "I Married a Witch."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Norman Matson