Josef von Sternberg
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Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josef von Sternberg canonical | 60 |
| Josef Von Sternberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928692 — 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: Josef von Sternberg Context triple: [Crime and Punishment (1935 film), director, Josef von Sternberg]
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A.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
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B.
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American filmmaker and actor renowned for his extravagant, uncompromising silent-era epics and his influential role in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
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D.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for pioneering expressionist cinema with classics like "Metropolis" and "M."
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E.
Walter Rohland
Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 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: Josef von Sternberg Target entity description: Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
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A.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
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B.
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American filmmaker and actor renowned for his extravagant, uncompromising silent-era epics and his influential role in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
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D.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for pioneering expressionist cinema with classics like "Metropolis" and "M."
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E.
Walter Rohland
Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Josef von Sternberg Description of subject: Josef von Sternberg was an influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized Hollywood films and his collaborations with actress Marlene Dietrich in the early 1930s.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.