Jack Gariss
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Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
All labels observed (1)
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| Jack Gariss canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1011457 — 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: Jack Gariss Context triple: [The Ten Commandments (1956 film), screenwriter, Jack Gariss]
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Alex Hannum
Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
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C.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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D.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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E.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
- 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: Jack Gariss Target entity description: Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Alex Hannum
Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
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C.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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D.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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E.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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epic film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Cecil B. DeMille ⓘ |
| contributedTo | The Ten Commandments (1956 film) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Cecil B. DeMille ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | biblical epic film ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Ten Commandments (1956 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Ten Commandments (1956 film) ⓘ |
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: Jack Gariss Description of subject: Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.