Howard A. Smith
E155178
Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard A. Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1170660 — 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: Howard A. Smith Context triple: [Breakfast at Tiffany's, editedBy, Howard A. Smith]
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A.
James Eastland
James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
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B.
Stanley Forman Reed
Stanley Forman Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1938 to 1957 and known for his influential opinions during the New Deal and early civil rights era.
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C.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
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E.
Jim Wright
Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
- 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: Howard A. Smith Target entity description: Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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A.
James Eastland
James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
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B.
Stanley Forman Reed
Stanley Forman Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1938 to 1957 and known for his influential opinions during the New Deal and early civil rights era.
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C.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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D.
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
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E.
Jim Wright
Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film editor ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Truman Capote ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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surface form:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Blake Edwards ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
ⓘ
film editing ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1961 ⓘ |
| starring |
Audrey Hepburn
ⓘ
George Peppard ⓘ |
| workedOn | Breakfast at Tiffany's ⓘ |
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: Howard A. Smith Description of subject: Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
subject surface form:
The Bob Mathias Story