Harry Smith
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Harry Smith was an influential American archivist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist best known for compiling the landmark Anthology of American Folk Music that helped spark the mid-20th-century folk revival.
All labels observed (1)
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| Harry Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18186242 — 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: Harry Smith Context triple: [Folkways Records, publishedArtist, Harry Smith]
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Harry Smith
Harry Smith was a 19th-century British Army officer and colonial governor known for his prominent role in the Xhosa Wars in South Africa.
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Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is an American record producer and music executive known for his influential work with folk, rock, and world music artists in the 1960s and beyond.
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Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
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D.
Harry Marker
Harry Marker was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "The Bells of St. Mary's."
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E.
Warren Cowan
Warren Cowan was a prominent American publicist and co-founder of the influential Hollywood public relations firm Rogers & Cowan.
- 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: Harry Smith Target entity description: Harry Smith was an influential American archivist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist best known for compiling the landmark Anthology of American Folk Music that helped spark the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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A.
Harry Smith
Harry Smith was a 19th-century British Army officer and colonial governor known for his prominent role in the Xhosa Wars in South Africa.
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B.
Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is an American record producer and music executive known for his influential work with folk, rock, and world music artists in the 1960s and beyond.
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C.
Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
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D.
Harry Marker
Harry Marker was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "The Bells of St. Mary's."
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E.
Warren Cowan
Warren Cowan was a prominent American publicist and co-founder of the influential Hollywood public relations firm Rogers & Cowan.
- F. None of above. chosen
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