Archie Mayo
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Archie Mayo was an American film director active during Hollywood's studio era, known for helming a wide range of popular features from the 1920s through the 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Archie Mayo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6184218 — 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: Archie Mayo Context triple: [The Great American Broadcast, director, Archie Mayo]
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A.
Philip Drucker
Philip Drucker was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering fieldwork on Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Olmec civilization.
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B.
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
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C.
Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo was an Australian-born industrial psychologist and organizational theorist best known for his pioneering Hawthorne studies, which highlighted the importance of social relations and worker morale in productivity.
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D.
Fritz J. Roethlisberger
Fritz J. Roethlisberger was an American social scientist and Harvard Business School professor best known for his influential role in the Hawthorne studies and his contributions to the human relations movement in management.
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E.
Alfred E. Kahn
Alfred E. Kahn was an American economist and regulator best known as the chief architect of U.S. airline deregulation in the late 1970s.
- 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: Archie Mayo Target entity description: Archie Mayo was an American film director active during Hollywood's studio era, known for helming a wide range of popular features from the 1920s through the 1940s.
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A.
Philip Drucker
Philip Drucker was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering fieldwork on Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Olmec civilization.
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B.
Alfred A. Cohn
Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
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C.
Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo was an Australian-born industrial psychologist and organizational theorist best known for his pioneering Hawthorne studies, which highlighted the importance of social relations and worker morale in productivity.
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D.
Fritz J. Roethlisberger
Fritz J. Roethlisberger was an American social scientist and Harvard Business School professor best known for his influential role in the Hawthorne studies and his contributions to the human relations movement in management.
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E.
Alfred E. Kahn
Alfred E. Kahn was an American economist and regulator best known as the chief architect of U.S. airline deregulation in the late 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-01-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1968-12-04 ⓘ |
| directed |
A Night in Casablanca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Black Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s Love I’m After NERFINISHED ⓘ Moontide NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doorway to Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great American Broadcast NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mayor of Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ The Petrified Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Under Eighteen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Classical Hollywood cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Archie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Archie Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Night in Casablanca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Black Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s Love I’m After NERFINISHED ⓘ Moontide NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doorway to Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great American Broadcast NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mayor of Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ The Petrified Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Under Eighteen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Guadalajara
NERFINISHED
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Jalisco NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Esther Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood studio system 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: Archie Mayo Description of subject: Archie Mayo was an American film director active during Hollywood's studio era, known for helming a wide range of popular features from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.