John Zinman
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John Zinman is a film and television screenwriter best known for co-writing the action-adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Zinman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9937034 — 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 Zinman Context triple: [Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, screenwriter, John Zinman]
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A.
Edward Zorinsky
Edward Zorinsky was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska and former mayor of Omaha known for his moderate Democratic politics and service in the late 20th century.
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B.
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the family adventure-comedy "Night at the Museum."
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C.
Daniel Zelman
Daniel Zelman is an American actor, screenwriter, and television producer known for co-creating the legal thriller series "Damages."
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D.
Henry Zimmerman
Henry Zimmerman, better known as Heinie Zimmerman, was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball player noted for his strong hitting and controversial role in a game-fixing scandal.
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E.
Harry Zech
Harry Zech is a cinematographer best known as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
- 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 Zinman Target entity description: John Zinman is a film and television screenwriter best known for co-writing the action-adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
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A.
Edward Zorinsky
Edward Zorinsky was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska and former mayor of Omaha known for his moderate Democratic politics and service in the late 20th century.
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B.
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the family adventure-comedy "Night at the Museum."
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C.
Daniel Zelman
Daniel Zelman is an American actor, screenwriter, and television producer known for co-creating the legal thriller series "Damages."
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D.
Henry Zimmerman
Henry Zimmerman, better known as Heinie Zimmerman, was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball player noted for his strong hitting and controversial role in a game-fixing scandal.
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E.
Harry Zech
Harry Zech is a cinematographer best known as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for directors of photography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century screenwriting ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States film and television industry
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linked to:
United States entertainment industry
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coWrote | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| genre | action-adventure film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ⓘ |
| occupation |
film writer
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screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Zinman ⓘ |
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 Zinman Description of subject: John Zinman is a film and television screenwriter best known for co-writing the action-adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Zinman