Elizabeth Meehan
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Elizabeth Meehan was an early 20th-century screenwriter known for adapting literary works for silent and early sound films in Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Meehan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7837161 — 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: Elizabeth Meehan Context triple: [The Great Gatsby (1926 film), screenwriter, Elizabeth Meehan]
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A.
Mary McElroy
Mary McElroy was the sister and unofficial White House hostess of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, known for managing social functions during his administration.
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B.
Margaret O'Leary
Margaret O'Leary is an Irish-born American nurse and educator known for her contributions to nursing practice and education in the United States.
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C.
Margaret McGrath
Margaret McGrath was an American philanthropist and the first wife of U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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D.
Mary Healy
Mary Healy was an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and on stage, often performing alongside her husband, entertainer Peter Lind Hayes.
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E.
Catherine Leahy
Catherine Leahy is a notable individual who shares the surname Leahy, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- 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: Elizabeth Meehan Target entity description: Elizabeth Meehan was an early 20th-century screenwriter known for adapting literary works for silent and early sound films in Hollywood.
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A.
Mary McElroy
Mary McElroy was the sister and unofficial White House hostess of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, known for managing social functions during his administration.
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B.
Margaret O'Leary
Margaret O'Leary is an Irish-born American nurse and educator known for her contributions to nursing practice and education in the United States.
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C.
Margaret McGrath
Margaret McGrath was an American philanthropist and the first wife of U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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D.
Mary Healy
Mary Healy was an American actress and singer known for her work in film, television, and on stage, often performing alongside her husband, entertainer Peter Lind Hayes.
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E.
Catherine Leahy
Catherine Leahy is a notable individual who shares the surname Leahy, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Hollywood, California
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linked to:
Hollywood, California, United States
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| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creativeWorkType | screenplay adaptations ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood studios ⓘ |
| era |
early sound era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
early sound film
ⓘ
silent film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableActivity | adapting literary properties for motion pictures ⓘ |
| notableFor | adapting literary works for film ⓘ |
| notableRole | adapter of novels and plays for the screen ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Meehan Description of subject: Elizabeth Meehan was an early 20th-century screenwriter known for adapting literary works for silent and early sound films in Hollywood.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.