John Farrow
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John Farrow was an Academy Award–winning Australian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Farrow canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4419422 — 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: John Farrow Context triple: [Lila Lee, spouse, John Farrow]
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A.
Peter Neal
Peter Neal is an American lawyer known for being married to Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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B.
Farley Granger
Farley Granger was an American actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train."
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C.
Joel Harlow
Joel Harlow is an Academy Award-winning American makeup artist and special effects designer known for his work on films such as "Star Trek" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
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D.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor was an Australian-born actor best known for his leading roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds" and George Pal’s "The Time Machine," as well as extensive work in both film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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E.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
- 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: John Farrow Target entity description: John Farrow was an Academy Award–winning Australian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Peter Neal
Peter Neal is an American lawyer known for being married to Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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B.
Farley Granger
Farley Granger was an American actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train."
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C.
Joel Harlow
Joel Harlow is an Academy Award-winning American makeup artist and special effects designer known for his work on films such as "Star Trek" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
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D.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor was an Australian-born actor best known for his leading roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds" and George Pal’s "The Time Machine," as well as extensive work in both film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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E.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award winner
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Around the World in 80 Days (screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Villiers Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child |
John Charles Farrow
NERFINISHED
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Mia Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Damien Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Prudence Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephanie Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Tisa Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-02-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-01-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Ignatius' College, Riverview NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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drama film ⓘ film noir ⓘ |
| hasNationality |
American
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Australian ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Canadian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Farrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alias Nick Beal
NERFINISHED
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Around the World in 80 Days (screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Came Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Hondo NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ Wake Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beverly Hills, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Maureen O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Damien the Leper
NERFINISHED
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Pageant of the Popes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Farrow Description of subject: John Farrow was an Academy Award–winning Australian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.