Tom Benedek
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Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Benedek canonical | 3 |
| Tom Benedek (screenwriter) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577775 — 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: Tom Benedek Context triple: [Cocoon, screenwriter, Tom Benedek]
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A.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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B.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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D.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
- 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: Tom Benedek Target entity description: Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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A.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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B.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
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C.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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D.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Cocoon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing the film Cocoon ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | American screenwriter of Cocoon ⓘ |
| notableWork | Cocoon ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Tom Benedek Description of subject: Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.