Alan Trustman
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Alan Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Trustman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10719865 — 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: Alan Trustman Context triple: [They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, screenwriter, Alan Trustman]
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A.
Dave Trager
Dave Trager was a sports executive best known for owning the early NBA franchise that became the Chicago Packers.
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B.
Al Bennett
Al Bennett was an American music industry executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of the influential record label Liberty Records.
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C.
George Eckstein
George Eckstein was an American television producer and writer best known for his work on acclaimed TV movies and series during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Brian Dutcher
Brian Dutcher is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the San Diego State Aztecs to national prominence, including a run to the 2023 NCAA championship game.
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E.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
- 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: Alan Trustman Target entity description: Alan Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
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A.
Dave Trager
Dave Trager was a sports executive best known for owning the early NBA franchise that became the Chicago Packers.
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B.
Al Bennett
Al Bennett was an American music industry executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of the influential record label Liberty Records.
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C.
George Eckstein
George Eckstein was an American television producer and writer best known for his work on acclaimed TV movies and series during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Brian Dutcher
Brian Dutcher is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the San Diego State Aztecs to national prominence, including a run to the 2023 NCAA championship game.
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E.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | best known for writing classic Steve McQueen films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bullitt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Thomas Crown Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alan Trustman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alan Trustman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredIn |
Bullitt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Thomas Crown Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Steve McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Bullitt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Thomas Crown Affair 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: Alan Trustman Description of subject: Alan Trustman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the classic Steve McQueen films "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Bullitt."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!