Charles Lawton Jr.
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Charles Lawton Jr. was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Lawton Jr. canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5549867 — 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: Charles Lawton Jr. Context triple: [Andy Hardy’s Double Life, cinematographyBy, Charles Lawton Jr.]
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A.
Charles Steele Jr.
Charles Steele Jr. is an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his longtime leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the historic organization once led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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C.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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E.
Charles O. Holliday Jr.
Charles O. Holliday Jr. is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of DuPont and later as chairman of Royal Dutch Shell.
- 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: Charles Lawton Jr. Target entity description: Charles Lawton Jr. was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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A.
Charles Steele Jr.
Charles Steele Jr. is an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his longtime leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the historic organization once led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Harry J. Elam Jr.
Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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C.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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E.
Charles O. Holliday Jr.
Charles O. Holliday Jr. is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of DuPont and later as chairman of Royal Dutch Shell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| era |
Golden Age of Hollywood
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
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| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | feature films ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | director of photography ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion pictures ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on numerous Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workLocation | film sets ⓘ |
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: Charles Lawton Jr. Description of subject: Charles Lawton Jr. was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Long Gray Line (film)
subject linked to:
Twinkle and Shine
subject linked to:
"The Gene Krupa Story"