Frederick Elmes
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Frederick Elmes is an American cinematographer known for his distinctive collaborations with directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, contributing to the visual style of numerous influential independent films.
All labels observed (1)
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| Frederick Elmes canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3129847 — 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: Frederick Elmes Context triple: [Coffee and Cigarettes, cinematography, Frederick Elmes]
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A.
Charles Mawhood
Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
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B.
Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner was a 19th-century British designer and partner in the influential Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
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C.
Thomas Bladen
Thomas Bladen was a colonial-era British official who served as governor of Maryland and lent his name to the town of Bladensburg.
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D.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- 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: Frederick Elmes Target entity description: Frederick Elmes is an American cinematographer known for his distinctive collaborations with directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, contributing to the visual style of numerous influential independent films.
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A.
Charles Mawhood
Charles Mawhood was a British Army officer best known for leading Crown forces against George Washington’s troops during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Princeton.
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B.
Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner was a 19th-century British designer and partner in the influential Arts and Crafts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
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C.
Thomas Bladen
Thomas Bladen was a colonial-era British official who served as governor of Maryland and lent his name to the town of Bladensburg.
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D.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Frederick Elmes Description of subject: Frederick Elmes is an American cinematographer known for his distinctive collaborations with directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, contributing to the visual style of numerous influential independent films.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arizona (2018 film)