James E. Newcom
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James E. Newcom was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James E. Newcom canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379754 — 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: James E. Newcom Context triple: [Gone with the Wind, editedBy, James E. Newcom]
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A.
William R. Schowalter
William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
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B.
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
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C.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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D.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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E.
Daniel P. Hanley
Daniel P. Hanley is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Ron Howard on numerous major Hollywood films.
- 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: James E. Newcom Target entity description: James E. Newcom was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind."
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A.
William R. Schowalter
William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
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B.
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
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C.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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D.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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E.
Daniel P. Hanley
Daniel P. Hanley is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Ron Howard on numerous major Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century American cinema ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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Oscar for Best Film Editing ⓘ
linked to:
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
|
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| edited | Gone with the Wind ⓘ |
| employer |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| familyName | Newcom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| industry | motion picture industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | editing the film "Gone with the Wind" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James E. Newcom ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won an Academy Award for editing "Gone with the Wind" ⓘ |
| notableFor | contribution to classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gone with the Wind ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: James E. Newcom Description of subject: James E. Newcom was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.