Harold Rosson
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Harold Rosson was an American cinematographer best known for his pioneering Technicolor work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical fantasy "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Rosson canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379810 — 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: Harold Rosson Context triple: [The Wizard of Oz, cinematographyBy, Harold Rosson]
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Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
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D.
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
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E.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
- 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: Harold Rosson Target entity description: Harold Rosson was an American cinematographer best known for his pioneering Technicolor work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical fantasy "The Wizard of Oz."
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A.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian was an influential Armenian-American film and theatre director known for his innovative staging and cinematic techniques in early sound films and landmark Broadway musicals.
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D.
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
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E.
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid was an Austrian-born actor and director best known for his role as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in the classic film "Casablanca."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century cinema ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography nomination
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
MGM
ⓘ
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| familyName | Rosson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Technicolor cinematography
ⓘ
cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film cinematography
ⓘ
drama film cinematography ⓘ musical film cinematography ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cinematography on The Wizard of Oz
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pioneering Technicolor work ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| name | Harold Rosson self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ |
| notableFor | visual style in Technicolor musicals ⓘ |
| notableTechnique |
studio-era lighting techniques
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use of early Technicolor processes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
On the Town
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Red-Headed Woman ⓘ Singin' in the Rain ⓘ The Asphalt Jungle ⓘ The Big House ⓘ The Gangster ⓘ The Garden of Allah ⓘ The Good Earth ⓘ The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ⓘ The Merry Widow ⓘ The Unholy Three ⓘ The Wizard of Oz ⓘ The Wizard of Oz ⓘ
surface form:
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
Treasure Island ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
director of photography ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Harlow ⓘ |
| workedOn |
American feature films
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black-and-white films ⓘ color films ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Harold Rosson Description of subject: Harold Rosson was an American cinematographer best known for his pioneering Technicolor work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical fantasy "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject surface form:
The Garden of Allah (1936 film)