Bernard Slade
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Bernard Slade was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter best known for creating popular television sitcoms and writing the hit stage play "Same Time, Next Year."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Slade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10286328 — 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: Bernard Slade Context triple: [The Partridge Family, creator, Bernard Slade]
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A.
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
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B.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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C.
Stanley Savige
Stanley Savige was an Australian Army lieutenant general and World War II corps commander noted for his leadership in the Pacific theatre and his earlier service at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War I.
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D.
Bernard Lowe
Bernard Lowe is a central character in the television series "Westworld," depicted as a brilliant but troubled programmer and head of the park's Programming Division who grapples with questions of identity and consciousness.
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E.
Bernard Hart
Bernard Hart was an early American financier and broker known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
- 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: Bernard Slade Target entity description: Bernard Slade was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter best known for creating popular television sitcoms and writing the hit stage play "Same Time, Next Year."
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A.
Bernard Bresslaw
Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
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B.
Clive Beddoe
Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
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C.
Stanley Savige
Stanley Savige was an Australian Army lieutenant general and World War II corps commander noted for his leadership in the Pacific theatre and his earlier service at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War I.
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D.
Bernard Lowe
Bernard Lowe is a central character in the television series "Westworld," depicted as a brilliant but troubled programmer and head of the park's Programming Division who grapples with questions of identity and consciousness.
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E.
Bernard Hart
Bernard Hart was an early American financier and broker known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| adaptedToFilm | Same Time, Next Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Bernard Slade Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Lewy body dementia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| createdTelevisionSeries |
Bridget Loves Bernie
NERFINISHED
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Love on a Rooftop NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flying Nun NERFINISHED ⓘ The Partridge Family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-05-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-10-30 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bernard Slade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bridget Loves Bernie
NERFINISHED
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Love on a Rooftop NERFINISHED ⓘ Romantic Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Same Time, Next Year NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flying Nun NERFINISHED ⓘ The Partridge Family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beverly Hills, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jill Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteForMedium |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| wrotePlay |
Romantic Comedy
NERFINISHED
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Same Time, Next Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Same Time, Next Year (film) 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: Bernard Slade Description of subject: Bernard Slade was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter best known for creating popular television sitcoms and writing the hit stage play "Same Time, Next Year."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Partridge Family