Irving Glassberg
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Irving Glassberg was a Polish-born American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Universal Pictures films in the 1940s and 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irving Glassberg canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349462 — 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: Irving Glassberg Context triple: [The Purple Mask, cinematographyBy, Irving Glassberg]
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A.
Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine was an influential American film producer and distributor known for aggressively marketing and popularizing both foreign and domestic films in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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C.
Henry M. Goldman
Henry M. Goldman was a prominent American dentist and academic leader recognized for his pioneering contributions to dental education and research.
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D.
Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro was an American screenwriter best known for his sharp comedic scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood, including several hit romantic comedies.
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E.
Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon was an American songwriter best known for penning enduring standards such as "Unforgettable" and other popular mid-20th-century ballads.
- 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: Irving Glassberg Target entity description: Irving Glassberg was a Polish-born American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Universal Pictures films in the 1940s and 1950s.
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A.
Joseph E. Levine
Joseph E. Levine was an influential American film producer and distributor known for aggressively marketing and popularizing both foreign and domestic films in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum is an influential American art dealer and curator best known for championing emerging contemporary artists in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, including early exhibitions of Andy Warhol.
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C.
Henry M. Goldman
Henry M. Goldman was a prominent American dentist and academic leader recognized for his pioneering contributions to dental education and research.
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D.
Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro was an American screenwriter best known for his sharp comedic scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood, including several hit romantic comedies.
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E.
Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon was an American songwriter best known for penning enduring standards such as "Unforgettable" and other popular mid-20th-century ballads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Poland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | feature film cinematography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American studio-era cinematography
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work on Universal Pictures productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Universal Pictures films of the 1940s
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Universal Pictures films of the 1950s ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Poland ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bend of the River
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The Black Castle ⓘ The Far Country ⓘ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ⓘ The Glenn Miller Story ⓘ The Golden Blade ⓘ The House of the Seven Gables ⓘ The Lady Gambles ⓘ The Man from the Alamo ⓘ The Naked City ⓘ The Runaround ⓘ The Sleeping City ⓘ The Spoilers ⓘ The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry ⓘ The Strange Door ⓘ The Suspect ⓘ The Tarnished Angels ⓘ The Web ⓘ Thunder Bay ⓘ Yankee Buccaneer ⓘ |
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: Irving Glassberg Description of subject: Irving Glassberg was a Polish-born American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Universal Pictures films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.