Monahan
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Monahan is a surname most notably associated with William Monahan, the American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "The Departed."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monahan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8691086 — 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: Monahan Context triple: [William Monahan, familyName, Monahan]
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A.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
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B.
Kelliher
Kelliher is an Irish surname, often of Gaelic origin, that appears in various anglicized spellings including Kelleher.
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C.
Mathison
Mathison is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Melissa Mathison, known for writing the screenplay for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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D.
Keene
Keene is a small community in Ontario, Canada, known for its rural character and proximity to Rice Lake.
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E.
Keene
Keene is a small unincorporated community in Kern County, California, historically associated with the United Farm Workers and labor leader César Chávez.
- 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: Monahan Target entity description: Monahan is a surname most notably associated with William Monahan, the American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "The Departed."
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A.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
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B.
Kelliher
Kelliher is an Irish surname, often of Gaelic origin, that appears in various anglicized spellings including Kelleher.
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C.
Mathison
Mathison is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Melissa Mathison, known for writing the screenplay for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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D.
Keene
Keene is a small community in Ontario, Canada, known for its rural character and proximity to Rice Lake.
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E.
Keene
Keene is a small unincorporated community in Kern County, California, historically associated with the United Farm Workers and labor leader César Chávez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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film ⓘ film award ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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crime film ⓘ drama ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Pat Monahan
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William Monahan ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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Irish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Body of Lies
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Edge of Darkness ⓘ Kingdom of Heaven ⓘ Light House: A Trifle ⓘ London Boulevard ⓘ The Departed ⓘ The Gambler ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Body of Lies
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Edge of Darkness ⓘ Kingdom of Heaven ⓘ London Boulevard ⓘ The Departed ⓘ The Gambler (2014 film) ⓘ |
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: Monahan Description of subject: Monahan is a surname most notably associated with William Monahan, the American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "The Departed."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.