John William Corrington
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John William Corrington was an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter known for co-writing several notable films and television scripts in the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John William Corrington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361907 — 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: John William Corrington Context triple: [The Omega Man, screenwriter, John William Corrington]
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A.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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B.
Christopher T. Russell
Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
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C.
John Truscott
John Truscott was an Australian production designer, art director, and designer renowned for his Oscar-winning film work and for shaping the visual and architectural identity of major cultural institutions in Melbourne.
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D.
Clayton C. Anderson
Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
John Canada Terrell
John Canada Terrell is an American actor best known for his starring role in Spike Lee’s breakthrough 1986 film "She’s Gotta Have It."
- 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: John William Corrington Target entity description: John William Corrington was an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter known for co-writing several notable films and television scripts in the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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B.
Christopher T. Russell
Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
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C.
John Truscott
John Truscott was an Australian production designer, art director, and designer renowned for his Oscar-winning film work and for shaping the visual and architectural identity of major cultural institutions in Melbourne.
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D.
Clayton C. Anderson
Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
John Canada Terrell
John Canada Terrell is an American actor best known for his starring role in Spike Lee’s breakthrough 1986 film "She’s Gotta Have It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Centenary College of Louisiana
NERFINISHED
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Rice University NERFINISHED ⓘ Tulane University Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Corrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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literature ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| givenName |
John
NERFINISHED
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William ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator | Joyce H. Corrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing films in the 1960s
ⓘ
co-writing films in the 1970s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
And Wait for the Night
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle for the Planet of the Apes NERFINISHED ⓘ Boxcar Bertha NERFINISHED ⓘ Decoration Day NERFINISHED ⓘ The Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killer Bees NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lonesome Traveler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Omega Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Steel Jungle NERFINISHED ⓘ screenplays for American feature films ⓘ television scripts for American television ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Joyce H. Corrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: John William Corrington Description of subject: John William Corrington was an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter known for co-writing several notable films and television scripts in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Omega Man