Glen MacWilliams
E152169
Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glen MacWilliams canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322885 — 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: Glen MacWilliams Context triple: [The Clairvoyant, cinematographyBy, Glen MacWilliams]
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A.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
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B.
Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
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C.
Andrew Viterbi
Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
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D.
Richard W. Hamming
Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
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E.
Zellig Harris
Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
- 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: Glen MacWilliams Target entity description: Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
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A.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
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B.
Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
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C.
Andrew Viterbi
Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
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D.
Richard W. Hamming
Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
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E.
Zellig Harris
Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Glen MacWilliams Description of subject: Glen MacWilliams was a British-born cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.