Cecil B. DeMille
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Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cecil B. DeMille canonical | 103 |
| DeMille | 2 |
| American filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille | 1 |
| Cecil B. DeMille filmography | 1 |
| Cecil Blount DeMille | 1 |
| collaborating with Cecil B. DeMille | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24890 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil B. DeMille Context triple: [Hollywood Forever Cemetery, hasBurial, Cecil B. DeMille]
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A.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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B.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
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C.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
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D.
Alfred Loomis
Alfred Loomis was an American lawyer, financier, and physicist who played a pivotal role in organizing and funding U.S. scientific research during World War II, particularly in radar development.
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E.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil B. DeMille Target entity description: Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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A.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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B.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
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C.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
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D.
Alfred Loomis
Alfred Loomis was an American lawyer, financier, and physicist who played a pivotal role in organizing and funding U.S. scientific research during World War II, particularly in radar development.
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E.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Cecil B. DeMille Description of subject: Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
Referenced by (109)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cecil Blount DeMille
this entity surface form:
DeMille
this entity surface form:
DeMille
this entity surface form:
collaborating with Cecil B. DeMille
subject surface form:
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
subject surface form:
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
this entity surface form:
American filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille
subject surface form:
Ashfield, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Agnes de Mille
subject surface form:
Pillar of Fire (novel)