Sherman Todd
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Sherman Todd was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the noir drama "They Live by Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherman Todd canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286705 — 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: Sherman Todd Context triple: [They Live by Night, editedBy, Sherman Todd]
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Sherman Douglas
Sherman Douglas is a former American point guard best known for his standout college career at Syracuse University and subsequent decade-long tenure in the NBA.
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C.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
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D.
Austin Sherman
Austin Sherman is known as one of the children of American actress Sela Ward.
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E.
Ron Toomer
Ron Toomer was a pioneering American roller coaster designer known for creating numerous influential steel coasters and shaping modern amusement ride engineering.
- 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: Sherman Todd Target entity description: Sherman Todd was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the noir drama "They Live by Night."
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Sherman Douglas
Sherman Douglas is a former American point guard best known for his standout college career at Syracuse University and subsequent decade-long tenure in the NBA.
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C.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
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D.
Austin Sherman
Austin Sherman is known as one of the children of American actress Sela Ward.
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E.
Ron Toomer
Ron Toomer was a pioneering American roller coaster designer known for creating numerous influential steel coasters and shaping modern amusement ride engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| editor | Sherman Todd ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | film noir ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| knownFor | film editing ⓘ |
| notableWork | They Live by Night ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | They Live by Night ⓘ |
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: Sherman Todd Description of subject: Sherman Todd was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the noir drama "They Live by Night."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.