Lester Beall
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Lester Beall was an influential American graphic designer known for his pioneering modernist posters and corporate identity work in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester Beall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22013797 — 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: Lester Beall Context triple: [AIGA Medal, notableRecipient, Lester Beall]
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A.
Lester Ballard
Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
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B.
Lester Hubbard
Lester Hubbard is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hubbard, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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C.
Lester Orlebeck
Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Lester Townsend
Lester Townsend is a fictional United Nations diplomat whose mistaken identity is central to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
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E.
Leland Fuller
Leland Fuller was an American film art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-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: Lester Beall Target entity description: Lester Beall was an influential American graphic designer known for his pioneering modernist posters and corporate identity work in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Lester Ballard
Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
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B.
Lester Hubbard
Lester Hubbard is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hubbard, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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C.
Lester Orlebeck
Lester Orlebeck was an American film editor and occasional director known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including classic family films of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Lester Townsend
Lester Townsend is a fictional United Nations diplomat whose mistaken identity is central to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
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E.
Leland Fuller
Leland Fuller was an American film art director known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.