William C. deMille branch
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The William C. deMille branch is the line of the DeMille family descended from filmmaker and playwright William C. deMille, known for its contributions to early American cinema and theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William C. deMille branch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5348607 — 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: William C. deMille branch Context triple: [DeMille family, notableBranch, William C. deMille branch]
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A.
Eisenhower Theater
Eisenhower Theater is one of the main performance venues at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., hosting a wide range of theater, dance, and musical productions.
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B.
Fremont Branch
Fremont Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Fremont area of Seattle, Washington.
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C.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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D.
Ballard Branch
Ballard Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Ballard area with books, media, and community services.
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E.
Eliot Branch
Eliot Branch is a glacially fed stream on the north side of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its steep, erosion-prone canyon that poses a major challenge to hikers on the Timberline Trail.
- 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: William C. deMille branch Target entity description: The William C. deMille branch is the line of the DeMille family descended from filmmaker and playwright William C. deMille, known for its contributions to early American cinema and theater.
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A.
Eisenhower Theater
Eisenhower Theater is one of the main performance venues at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., hosting a wide range of theater, dance, and musical productions.
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B.
Fremont Branch
Fremont Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Fremont area of Seattle, Washington.
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C.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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D.
Ballard Branch
Ballard Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Ballard area with books, media, and community services.
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E.
Eliot Branch
Eliot Branch is a glacially fed stream on the north side of Mount Hood in Oregon, known for its steep, erosion-prone canyon that poses a major challenge to hikers on the Timberline Trail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | family branch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American stage drama
ⓘ
early Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| familyName | DeMille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
film
ⓘ
theater ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | American ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole | descendants of William C. deMille ⓘ |
| hasProgenitor | William C. deMille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
linked to the development of American theatrical playwriting
ⓘ
linked to the development of early American narrative film ⓘ |
| languageOfCulturalContext | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William C. deMille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American theater
ⓘ
contributions to early American cinema ⓘ |
| partOf | DeMille family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesOriginWith | Cecil B. DeMille branch of the DeMille family 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: William C. deMille branch Description of subject: The William C. deMille branch is the line of the DeMille family descended from filmmaker and playwright William C. deMille, known for its contributions to early American cinema and theater.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.