Davis Boulton
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Davis Boulton was a British cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as the 1963 horror movie "The Haunting."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Davis Boulton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3456635 — 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: Davis Boulton Context triple: [The Haunting (1963 film), cinematographyBy, Davis Boulton]
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Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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B.
Cecil Poynton
Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
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C.
Tony Bancroft
Tony Bancroft is an American animator and film director best known for co-directing Disney’s animated feature "Mulan."
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D.
Rupert Baxter
Rupert Baxter is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as the hyper-efficient, suspicious former secretary whose attempts to impose order often lead to comic chaos.
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E.
Dudley Nichols
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
- 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: Davis Boulton Target entity description: Davis Boulton was a British cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as the 1963 horror movie "The Haunting."
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A.
Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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B.
Cecil Poynton
Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
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C.
Tony Bancroft
Tony Bancroft is an American animator and film director best known for co-directing Disney’s animated feature "Mulan."
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D.
Rupert Baxter
Rupert Baxter is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as the hyper-efficient, suspicious former secretary whose attempts to impose order often lead to comic chaos.
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E.
Dudley Nichols
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director best known for his prolific work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his Academy Award-winning script for "The Informer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film ⓘ horror film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Davis Boulton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Robert Wise ⓘ |
| filmographyIncludes | The Haunting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
atmospheric black-and-white cinematography
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cinematography on The Haunting ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Haunting ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Haunting ⓘ |
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: Davis Boulton Description of subject: Davis Boulton was a British cinematographer best known for his atmospheric black-and-white work on classic films such as the 1963 horror movie "The Haunting."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.