William C. McGann
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William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William C. McGann canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5294140 — 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. McGann Context triple: [American Society of Cinematographers, foundedBy, William C. McGann]
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Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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B.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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C.
Thomas W. Connell
Thomas W. Connell was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces involved in the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
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D.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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E.
Charles E. Kearney
Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
- 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. McGann Target entity description: William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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B.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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C.
Thomas W. Connell
Thomas W. Connell was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces involved in the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
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D.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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E.
Charles E. Kearney
Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ |
| artisticMovement | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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cinematography ⓘ film direction ⓘ |
| genre | feature film ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
Hollywood
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture film ⓘ |
| notableFor | helping shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mystery House
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Penrod and Sam (1937 film) ⓘ The Case of the Black Cat ⓘ The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ⓘ The Case of the Velvet Claws ⓘ The Footloose Heiress ⓘ The Patient in Room 18 ⓘ The Walking Dead (1936 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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. McGann Description of subject: William C. McGann was an early 20th-century American cinematographer and film director who helped shape the visual style of Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.