Tom Rolf
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Tom Rolf was an American film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Taxi Driver" and for winning an Academy Award for editing "The Right Stuff."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Rolf canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180716 — 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: Tom Rolf Context triple: [Taxi Driver, editedBy, Tom Rolf]
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A.
Dick Rudolph
Dick Rudolph was a Major League Baseball pitcher best known for leading the Boston Braves' dominant staff during their "Miracle Braves" 1914 championship season.
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B.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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D.
Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus was the longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster and iconic play-by-play voice of the Seattle Mariners.
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E.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
- 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: Tom Rolf Target entity description: Tom Rolf was an American film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Taxi Driver" and for winning an Academy Award for editing "The Right Stuff."
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A.
Dick Rudolph
Dick Rudolph was a Major League Baseball pitcher best known for leading the Boston Braves' dominant staff during their "Miracle Braves" 1914 championship season.
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B.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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D.
Dave Niehaus
Dave Niehaus was the longtime Hall of Fame broadcaster and iconic play-by-play voice of the Seattle Mariners.
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E.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Film Editing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood film industry
|
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| genre | film editing ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | editor ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing Taxi Driver
ⓘ
editing The Right Stuff ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won Academy Award for editing The Right Stuff ⓘ |
| notableAward | Academy Award ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | worked on films directed by Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| notableFilmEdited |
Taxi Driver
ⓘ
The Right Stuff ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Taxi Driver
ⓘ
The Right Stuff ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| specialization | feature film editing ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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
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Input
Subject: Tom Rolf Description of subject: Tom Rolf was an American film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Taxi Driver" and for winning an Academy Award for editing "The Right Stuff."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lady Sings the Blues
subject surface form:
New York, New York