Kent L. Wakeford
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Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kent L. Wakeford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197469 — 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: Kent L. Wakeford Context triple: [Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, cinematographyBy, Kent L. Wakeford]
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A.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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B.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
R. Douglas Wright
R. Douglas Wright is a distinguished American trombonist and educator known for his prominent orchestral and conservatory teaching roles.
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E.
Stephen F. Windon
Stephen F. Windon is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on major action and science fiction films, including entries in the Fast & Furious franchise and Star Trek Beyond.
- 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: Kent L. Wakeford Target entity description: Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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A.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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B.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
R. Douglas Wright
R. Douglas Wright is a distinguished American trombonist and educator known for his prominent orchestral and conservatory teaching roles.
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E.
Stephen F. Windon
Stephen F. Windon is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on major action and science fiction films, including entries in the Fast & Furious franchise and Star Trek Beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
ⓘ
cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| collaboratedWith | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | feature film ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewsAbout |
cinematography techniques
ⓘ
collaboration with Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| influenced | later American cinematographers ⓘ |
| knownFor | influential 1970s films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
New Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
American New Wave cinema
|
| notableCollaborationPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| notableEra | 1970s American cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor | gritty realistic visual style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
ⓘ
Mean Streets ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
New Hollywood era
|
| workedOn |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
ⓘ
Mean Streets ⓘ |
| workedWithDirector | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| workPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Kent L. Wakeford Description of subject: Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.