Ferris Webster
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Ferris Webster was an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the Clint Eastwood prison drama "Escape from Alcatraz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ferris Webster canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755273 — 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: Ferris Webster Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, editedBy, Ferris Webster]
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A.
Ralph Malph
Ralph Malph is a wisecracking, redheaded teenager known for his corny jokes and nervous humor on the classic TV sitcom "Happy Days."
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B.
Victor Willis
Victor Willis is an American singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the original lead vocalist and co-writer for the disco group Village People.
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C.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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D.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
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E.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
- 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: Ferris Webster Target entity description: Ferris Webster was an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the Clint Eastwood prison drama "Escape from Alcatraz."
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A.
Ralph Malph
Ralph Malph is a wisecracking, redheaded teenager known for his corny jokes and nervous humor on the classic TV sitcom "Happy Days."
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B.
Victor Willis
Victor Willis is an American singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the original lead vocalist and co-writer for the disco group Village People.
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C.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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D.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
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E.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | film editing ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| knownFor |
editing the Clint Eastwood prison drama "Escape from Alcatraz"
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major Hollywood productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
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surface form:
Escape from Alcatraz
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| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn |
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
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surface form:
Escape from Alcatraz
|
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: Ferris Webster Description of subject: Ferris Webster was an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the Clint Eastwood prison drama "Escape from Alcatraz."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Escape from Alcatraz
subject surface form:
The Magnificent Seven (1960 film)
subject surface form:
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
subject surface form:
Father of the Bride (1950 film)