Clifford Stine
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Clifford Stine was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the realms of visual effects and genre cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clifford Stine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12860713 — 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: Clifford Stine Context triple: [Bedtime Story, cinematography, Clifford Stine]
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A.
Clifford Stein
Clifford Stein is a computer scientist and professor best known for his contributions to algorithms and operations research, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Introduction to Algorithms."
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B.
David Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield was an acclaimed English actor best known for his powerful stage performances and his Academy Award-winning role as Sir Thomas More in the film "A Man for All Seasons."
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C.
Elliott Saltzman
Elliott Saltzman is best known as the husband of American actress and director Dinah Manoff.
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D.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
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E.
Clifford Durant
Clifford Durant was an American automobile executive best known for founding and leading the Durant Motors car company in the early 20th century.
- 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: Clifford Stine Target entity description: Clifford Stine was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the realms of visual effects and genre cinema.
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A.
Clifford Stein
Clifford Stein is a computer scientist and professor best known for his contributions to algorithms and operations research, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Introduction to Algorithms."
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B.
David Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield was an acclaimed English actor best known for his powerful stage performances and his Academy Award-winning role as Sir Thomas More in the film "A Man for All Seasons."
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C.
Elliott Saltzman
Elliott Saltzman is best known as the husband of American actress and director Dinah Manoff.
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D.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
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E.
Clifford Durant
Clifford Durant was an American automobile executive best known for founding and leading the Durant Motors car company in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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human ⓘ special effects cinematographer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Paramount Pictures
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Universal Pictures ⓘ various Hollywood studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinematography
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motion pictures ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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disaster film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
genre cinema
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mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ visual effects cinematography ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Airport (1970 film)
NERFINISHED
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Bend of the River NERFINISHED ⓘ Earthquake (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartacus (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Deadly Mantis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Far Country NERFINISHED ⓘ The Glenn Miller Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hindenburg (1975 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Incredible Shrinking Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Land Unknown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mole People NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monolith Monsters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tarnished Angels NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing from Another World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Towering Inferno NERFINISHED ⓘ The War of the Worlds (1953 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ This Island Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ Written on the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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special effects artist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Clifford Stine Description of subject: Clifford Stine was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly in the realms of visual effects and genre cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bedtime Story (1964 film)