R. E. Dearing
E421290
R. E. Dearing was a British film editor best known for his work on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Lady Vanishes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| R. E. Dearing canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4207079 — 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: R. E. Dearing Context triple: [The Lady Vanishes, editedBy, R. E. Dearing]
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A.
P. M. Blodgett
P. M. Blodgett was an early settler and prominent local figure in Oregon after whom the community of Blodgett was named.
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B.
Lee R. Mayes
Lee R. Mayes is a film producer best known for his work on the comedy movie "White Chicks."
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C.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
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E.
Delos A. Blodgett
Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
- 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: R. E. Dearing Target entity description: R. E. Dearing was a British film editor best known for his work on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Lady Vanishes."
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A.
P. M. Blodgett
P. M. Blodgett was an early settler and prominent local figure in Oregon after whom the community of Blodgett was named.
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B.
Lee R. Mayes
Lee R. Mayes is a film producer best known for his work on the comedy movie "White Chicks."
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C.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
E. D. Nixon
E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
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E.
Delos A. Blodgett
Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes
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editing classic British films of the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Lady Vanishes ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workedOn |
The Lady Vanishes
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classic films of the 1930s ⓘ classic films of the 1940s ⓘ |
| workedWith | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
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: R. E. Dearing Description of subject: R. E. Dearing was a British film editor best known for his work on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Lady Vanishes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.