Frederic Y. Smith
E1032947
Frederic Y. Smith was a film editor known for his work on early 20th-century motion pictures, including the Marx Brothers comedy "At the Circus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frederic Y. Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11666830 — 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: Frederic Y. Smith Context triple: [At the Circus, editedBy, Frederic Y. Smith]
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A.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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B.
Gustavus W. Smith
Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
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C.
Harwood K. Smith
Harwood K. Smith was an American architect and businessman best known as the founder of the architecture and engineering firm HKS, Inc.
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D.
William F. Smith
William F. Smith was an individual interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, a historic burial ground for many notable figures.
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E.
Frederick H. Winston
Frederick H. Winston was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician best known as the founding partner of the international law firm Winston & Strawn.
- 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: Frederic Y. Smith Target entity description: Frederic Y. Smith was a film editor known for his work on early 20th-century motion pictures, including the Marx Brothers comedy "At the Circus."
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A.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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B.
Gustavus W. Smith
Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
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C.
Harwood K. Smith
Harwood K. Smith was an American architect and businessman best known as the founder of the architecture and engineering firm HKS, Inc.
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D.
William F. Smith
William F. Smith was an individual interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, a historic burial ground for many notable figures.
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E.
Frederick H. Winston
Frederick H. Winston was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician best known as the founding partner of the international law firm Winston & Strawn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| feature | Marx Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing early 20th-century motion pictures
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editing the Marx Brothers film "At the Circus" ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | "At the Circus" 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: Frederic Y. Smith Description of subject: Frederic Y. Smith was a film editor known for his work on early 20th-century motion pictures, including the Marx Brothers comedy "At the Circus."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.