Edmund Goulding
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British person
actor
film director
film producer
immigrant to the United States
playwright
screenwriter
songwriter
Edmund Goulding was a British-born film director and screenwriter best known for helming sophisticated Hollywood dramas during the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Goulding canonical | 33 |
| Edmond Goulding | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1943037 — 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: Edmund Goulding Context triple: [The Razor's Edge (1946 film), director, Edmund Goulding]
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Alfred Barry
Alfred Barry was a 19th-century English Anglican bishop, educator, and author who served as Bishop of Sydney and was known for his influential work in religious education.
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Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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C.
Cecil Hart
Cecil Hart was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey coach and manager, best known for his successful tenure with the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL.
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D.
W. H. Lynn
W. H. Lynn was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for his ecclesiastical and civic buildings, particularly in Belfast.
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G. Albert Lansburgh
G. Albert Lansburgh was an American architect best known for his elegant theater and opera house designs in the early 20th century, particularly on the West Coast.
- 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: Edmund Goulding Target entity description: Edmund Goulding was a British-born film director and screenwriter best known for helming sophisticated Hollywood dramas during the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Alfred Barry
Alfred Barry was a 19th-century English Anglican bishop, educator, and author who served as Bishop of Sydney and was known for his influential work in religious education.
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B.
Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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C.
Cecil Hart
Cecil Hart was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey coach and manager, best known for his successful tenure with the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL.
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D.
W. H. Lynn
W. H. Lynn was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for his ecclesiastical and civic buildings, particularly in Belfast.
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E.
G. Albert Lansburgh
G. Albert Lansburgh was an American architect best known for his elegant theater and opera house designs in the early 20th century, particularly on the West Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: Edmund Goulding Description of subject: Edmund Goulding was a British-born film director and screenwriter best known for helming sophisticated Hollywood dramas during the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.