Lloyd Bacon
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Lloyd Bacon was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood during the 1920s–1940s, including numerous musicals and comedies for Warner Bros.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lloyd Bacon canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315405 — 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: Lloyd Bacon Context triple: [The Singing Fool, director, Lloyd Bacon]
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Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
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B.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Valentine Fleming
Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
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D.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
- 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: Lloyd Bacon Target entity description: Lloyd Bacon was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood during the 1920s–1940s, including numerous musicals and comedies for Warner Bros.
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A.
Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer whose prolific career spanned the silent and early sound eras of Hollywood cinema.
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B.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Valentine Fleming
Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
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D.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Lloyd Bacon Description of subject: Lloyd Bacon was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood during the 1920s–1940s, including numerous musicals and comedies for Warner Bros.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Singing Fool