Henry James Forman
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Henry James Forman was an American author and journalist best known for his 1933 book "Our Movie Made Children," which helped fuel concerns about the impact of films on youth and influenced the development of the Hays Code in Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
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| Henry James Forman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10456146 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry James Forman Context triple: [Forman, hasNotableBearer, Henry James Forman]
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Henry Gordon Bennett
Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
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B.
Charles Jerome Daly
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships and coaching the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team."
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C.
Joseph Borden McKean
Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
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D.
Philip Leslie Hale
Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist painter and influential art teacher associated with the Boston School, known for his luminous landscapes and figure paintings.
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E.
Howard Holbrook
Howard Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily established.
- 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: Henry James Forman Target entity description: Henry James Forman was an American author and journalist best known for his 1933 book "Our Movie Made Children," which helped fuel concerns about the impact of films on youth and influenced the development of the Hays Code in Hollywood.
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A.
Henry Gordon Bennett
Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
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B.
Charles Jerome Daly
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships and coaching the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team."
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C.
Joseph Borden McKean
Joseph Borden McKean was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
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D.
Philip Leslie Hale
Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist painter and influential art teacher associated with the Boston School, known for his luminous landscapes and figure paintings.
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E.
Howard Holbrook
Howard Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily established.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American journalism
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20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| author | Henry James Forman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ
surface form:
University of Berlin
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Atlantic Monthly
NERFINISHED
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Harper's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Herald NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Tribune NERFINISHED ⓘ New York World NERFINISHED ⓘ Reader's Digest NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Evening Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of the Hays Code
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public concern about youth and cinema ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | effects of motion pictures on children ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributing to concerns that led to the strengthening of the Hays Code
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influencing public debate on the impact of films on children ⓘ |
| notableWork | Our Movie Made Children NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1933 ⓘ |
| wrote |
Our Movie Made Children
NERFINISHED
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The American NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of Propaganda NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the Great War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Marines NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Post Office NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Secret Service NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Supreme Court NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of the United States Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Henry James Forman Description of subject: Henry James Forman was an American author and journalist best known for his 1933 book "Our Movie Made Children," which helped fuel concerns about the impact of films on youth and influenced the development of the Hays Code in Hollywood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.