Rowland V. Lee
E443293
Rowland V. Lee was an American film director, producer, and actor best known for his work on classic Hollywood adventure and horror films in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rowland V. Lee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4422791 — 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: Rowland V. Lee Context triple: [Son of Frankenstein, director, Rowland V. Lee]
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A.
William Grady Little
William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
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B.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
John B. Gordon
John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
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E.
William Harrell Nellis
William Harrell Nellis was a decorated American World War II fighter pilot whose combat service and sacrifice led to a major U.S. Air Force base being named in his honor.
- 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: Rowland V. Lee Target entity description: Rowland V. Lee was an American film director, producer, and actor best known for his work on classic Hollywood adventure and horror films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
William Grady Little
William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
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B.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
John B. Gordon
John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
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E.
William Harrell Nellis
William Harrell Nellis was a decorated American World War II fighter pilot whose combat service and sacrifice led to a major U.S. Air Force base being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
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United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
adventure films
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cinema ⓘ horror films ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Rowland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
Gothic horror (for Son of Frankenstein)
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historical drama (for Tower of London) ⓘ swashbuckler film (for The Count of Monte Cristo) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Rowland V. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
classic Hollywood adventure films
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classic Hollywood horror films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barbed Wire (1927 film)
NERFINISHED
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Son of Frankenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guilty Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Reclaimed His Head NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return of Monte Cristo NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ruling Voice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of St. Ives NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Musketeers (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tower of London (1939 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoo in Budapest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Classical Hollywood cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rowland V. Lee Description of subject: Rowland V. Lee was an American film director, producer, and actor best known for his work on classic Hollywood adventure and horror films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.