Pembroke J. Herring
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Pembroke J. Herring was an American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood comedies and dramas from the 1960s through the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pembroke J. Herring canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232232 — 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: Pembroke J. Herring Context triple: [Stir Crazy, editedBy, Pembroke J. Herring]
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A.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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B.
George William C. Whiting
George William C. Whiting was a benefactor and namesake of Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, recognized for his significant contributions to engineering education.
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C.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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D.
William Hawks
William Hawks was an American film producer and the younger brother of renowned director Howard Hawks.
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E.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
- 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: Pembroke J. Herring Target entity description: Pembroke J. Herring was an American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood comedies and dramas from the 1960s through the 1990s.
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A.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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B.
George William C. Whiting
George William C. Whiting was a benefactor and namesake of Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, recognized for his significant contributions to engineering education.
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C.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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D.
William Hawks
William Hawks was an American film producer and the younger brother of renowned director Howard Hawks.
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E.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Herring ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Pembroke ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Pembroke J. Herring self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Groundhog Day
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Silver Streak ⓘ Stir Crazy ⓘ The Electric Horseman ⓘ The Goodbye Girl ⓘ The Main Event ⓘ The Sunshine Boys ⓘ The Way We Were ⓘ Tootsie ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Pembroke J. Herring Description of subject: Pembroke J. Herring was an American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood comedies and dramas from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
National Lampoon’s Vacation
subject surface form:
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