Alfred E. Green
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Alfred E. Green was an American film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features across a variety of genres.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alfred E. Green canonical | 8 |
| Alfred E. Green Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2305417 — 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: Alfred E. Green Context triple: [Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film), director, Alfred E. Green]
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A.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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B.
John Ogden Greenstreet
John Ogden Greenstreet was the son of renowned British character actor Sydney Greenstreet, known for his work in classic Hollywood films of the 1940s.
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C.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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D.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- 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: Alfred E. Green Target entity description: Alfred E. Green was an American film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features across a variety of genres.
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A.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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B.
John Ogden Greenstreet
John Ogden Greenstreet was the son of renowned British character actor Sydney Greenstreet, known for his work in classic Hollywood films of the 1940s.
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C.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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D.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film director
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1954 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Alfred E. Green
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Alfred E. Green Jr.
Phil Green ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889-07-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1960-09-04 ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
Columbia Pictures ⓘ RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ Warner Bros. Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| familyName | Green ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alfred ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jack Green ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing Hollywood feature films from the silent era through the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baby Face
ⓘ
Benjamin Disraeli ⓘ
surface form:
Disraeli
Four Mothers ⓘ Four Wives ⓘ Smart Money ⓘ Sweethearts ⓘ La fanciulla del West ⓘ
surface form:
The Girl of the Golden West
The Goose and the Gander ⓘ Victor Herbert ⓘ
surface form:
The Great Victor Herbert
The Jolson Story ⓘ The Maltese Falcon ⓘ
surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
Union Depot ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Hollywood cinema
|
| placeOfBirth |
Perris
ⓘ
surface form:
Perris, California, United States of America
|
| placeOfDeath |
Hollywood, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood, California, United States of America
|
| residence | Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Vivian Reed ⓘ |
| workedOn |
silent films
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sound films ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alfred E. Green Description of subject: Alfred E. Green was an American film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features across a variety of genres.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alfred E. Green Jr.