Irving Willat
E322501
Irving Willat was an American silent-era film director known for his work in early Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irving Willat canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2615757 — 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: Irving Willat Context triple: [Billie Dove, spouse, Irving Willat]
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A.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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C.
Henry Wolfe
Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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D.
Leonard Bleecker
Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
- 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: Irving Willat Target entity description: Irving Willat was an American silent-era film director known for his work in early Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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C.
Henry Wolfe
Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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D.
Leonard Bleecker
Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Sidney Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Behind the Door
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Below the Surface ⓘ Partners of the Tide ⓘ The False Faces ⓘ The Grim Game ⓘ The Law of the Yukon ⓘ The Man Who Won ⓘ The Silver Horde ⓘ |
| familyName | Willat ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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silent film direction ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Irving ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Irving Willat ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American silent-era film direction
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work in early Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Behind the Door
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Below the Surface ⓘ Partners of the Tide ⓘ The False Faces ⓘ The Grim Game ⓘ The Law of the Yukon ⓘ The Man Who Won ⓘ The Silver Horde ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Billie Dove ⓘ |
| 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: Irving Willat Description of subject: Irving Willat was an American silent-era film director known for his work in early Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.