Edward Curtiss
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Edward Curtiss was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Curtiss canonical | 36 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3898703 — 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: Edward Curtiss Context triple: [Come and Get It, editedBy, Edward Curtiss]
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A.
Albert DeSilver
Albert DeSilver was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as one of the founding figures of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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B.
Cecil B. Moore
Cecil B. Moore was a prominent Philadelphia civil rights leader, lawyer, and NAACP president known for his militant activism against racial segregation and discrimination in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Alfred Haskell Conrad
Alfred Haskell Conrad was an American economist and economic historian known for his pioneering work in quantitative economic history and his collaboration with John R. Meyer.
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D.
Sterling Clark
Sterling Clark was an American art collector and philanthropist best known for founding the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers was a 19th-century American chemist and educator known for his contributions to analytical chemistry and his role in advancing scientific education.
- 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: Edward Curtiss Target entity description: Edward Curtiss was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Albert DeSilver
Albert DeSilver was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as one of the founding figures of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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B.
Cecil B. Moore
Cecil B. Moore was a prominent Philadelphia civil rights leader, lawyer, and NAACP president known for his militant activism against racial segregation and discrimination in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Alfred Haskell Conrad
Alfred Haskell Conrad was an American economist and economic historian known for his pioneering work in quantitative economic history and his collaboration with John R. Meyer.
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D.
Sterling Clark
Sterling Clark was an American art collector and philanthropist best known for founding the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers was a 19th-century American chemist and educator known for his contributions to analytical chemistry and his role in advancing scientific education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film editing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | feature films ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | editor of numerous Hollywood productions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American cinema
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editing Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Hollywood
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film industry ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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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: Edward Curtiss Description of subject: Edward Curtiss was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film Birdman of Alcatraz
subject linked to:
Criss Cross (1949 film)
subject linked to:
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948 film)