Charles Lang
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Charles Lang was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Lang canonical | 29 |
| Charles B. Lang Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308269 — 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: Charles Lang Context triple: [The Magnificent Seven (1960 film), cinematographyBy, Charles Lang]
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A.
Henry de Mille
Henry de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his successful stage works and as the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
John Arthur
John Arthur was the late husband of James Obergefell, whose death and their marriage became central to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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C.
Henry George de Mille
Henry George de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his collaborations with David Belasco and as the father of filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and choreographer Agnes de Mille.
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D.
William Nicholson
William Nicholson is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist known for works such as "Shadowlands," "Gladiator," and other major film and stage scripts.
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E.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
- 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: Charles Lang Target entity description: Charles Lang was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
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A.
Henry de Mille
Henry de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his successful stage works and as the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
John Arthur
John Arthur was the late husband of James Obergefell, whose death and their marriage became central to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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C.
Henry George de Mille
Henry George de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his collaborations with David Belasco and as the father of filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille and choreographer Agnes de Mille.
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D.
William Nicholson
William Nicholson is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist known for works such as "Shadowlands," "Gladiator," and other major film and stage scripts.
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E.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Charles Lang Description of subject: Charles Lang was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Magnificent Seven (1960 film)
this entity surface form:
Charles B. Lang Jr.
subject surface form:
Midnight (1939 film)
subject surface form:
Sabrina (1954 film)
this entity surface form:
Charles B. Lang Jr.
subject surface form:
Some Like It Hot