John Howard Lawson
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John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and prominent member of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his political beliefs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Howard Lawson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9013408 — 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 Howard Lawson Context triple: [Action in the North Atlantic, screenwriter, John Howard Lawson]
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A.
Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
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B.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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C.
Fritz Lanman
Fritz Lanman is an American technology executive and investor known for his leadership roles at companies like ClassPass and his early investment in and involvement with startups such as Square.
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D.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
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E.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Howard Lawson Target entity description: John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and prominent member of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his political beliefs.
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A.
Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
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B.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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C.
Fritz Lanman
Fritz Lanman is an American technology executive and investor known for his leadership roles at companies like ClassPass and his early investment in and involvement with startups such as Square.
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D.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
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E.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
ⓘ
member of the Hollywood Ten ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| blacklistContext | Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| convictedOf | contempt of Congress ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-09-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-08-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Williams College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | McCarthy era ⓘ |
| familyName | Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Howard Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
screenplays ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprisonedFor | refusing to answer HUAC questions ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hollywood Ten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | socialist realism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the Hollywood Ten ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blockade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Processional NERFINISHED ⓘ Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
ⓘ
essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | communist ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Communist Party USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sue Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | House Un-American Activities Committee hearings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBlacklisted | true ⓘ |
| wrote |
Action in the North Atlantic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blockade NERFINISHED ⓘ Counter-Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ Loud Speaker ⓘ Processional NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahara NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hidden Heritage NERFINISHED ⓘ The World We Live In NERFINISHED ⓘ Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting 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: John Howard Lawson Description of subject: John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and prominent member of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his political beliefs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.