Irving Thalberg
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Irving Thalberg was a legendary early Hollywood film producer and studio executive, often called "The Boy Wonder," who helped shape MGM’s golden age and the classic studio system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irving Thalberg canonical | 36 |
| Irving G. Thalberg | 7 |
| Thalberg | 2 |
| Irving Grant Thalberg | 1 |
| bust of Irving G. Thalberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440403 — 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 Thalberg Context triple: [MGM, notableExecutive, Irving Thalberg]
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A.
Beatrice DeMille
Beatrice DeMille was an American playwright and literary agent best known as the mother of pioneering film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz was an acclaimed American screenwriter, producer, and director known for his sophisticated, dialogue-driven films and multiple Academy Awards, including those for writing and directing.
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C.
Valentine Fleming
Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
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D.
Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille was a Canadian-born American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions.
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E.
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
- 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 Thalberg Target entity description: Irving Thalberg was a legendary early Hollywood film producer and studio executive, often called "The Boy Wonder," who helped shape MGM’s golden age and the classic studio system.
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A.
Beatrice DeMille
Beatrice DeMille was an American playwright and literary agent best known as the mother of pioneering film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz was an acclaimed American screenwriter, producer, and director known for his sophisticated, dialogue-driven films and multiple Academy Awards, including those for writing and directing.
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C.
Valentine Fleming
Valentine Fleming was a British Conservative politician and World War I officer whose death in action left a lasting impact on his family, including his son, author Ian Fleming.
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D.
Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille was a Canadian-born American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions.
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E.
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
person ⓘ studio executive ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1936 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
ⓘ
surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (posthumous namesake honor)
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| birthDate | 1899-05-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| child |
Irving Thalberg Jr.
ⓘ
Irving Thalberg Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Katherine Thalberg
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1936-09-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ |
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
ⓘ
Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Hollywood cinema
|
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Irving Thalberg
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Thalberg
|
| fullName |
Irving Thalberg
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Irving Grant Thalberg
|
| givenName | Irving ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hollywood studio system
ⓘ
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production policies ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1936 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1927 ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | congenital heart condition ⓘ |
| nickname | The Boy Wonder ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
developed MGM’s prestige production strategy emphasizing quality and star power
ⓘ
helped shape the MGM studio system during Hollywood’s golden age ⓘ pioneered the role of the producer as creative authority in the studio system ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | reputation for meticulous script development and preview screenings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Night at the Opera (1935)
ⓘ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Camille (1936) ⓘ China Seas (1935) ⓘ Flesh and the Devil (1926) ⓘ Grand Hotel ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Hotel (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty ⓘ
surface form:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Night Flight (1933) ⓘ Red-Headed Woman ⓘ
surface form:
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Riptide (1934) ⓘ Romeo and Juliet (1936 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Smilin’ Through (1932) ⓘ Strange Interlude ⓘ
surface form:
Strange Interlude (1932)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) ⓘ The Barretts of Wimpole Street (stage-to-film adaptation oversight) ⓘ The Big Parade ⓘ
surface form:
The Big Parade (1925)
The Crowd ⓘ
surface form:
The Crowd (1928)
The Divorcee (1930) ⓘ The Good Earth ⓘ
surface form:
The Good Earth (1937)
The Good Fairy (1935) ⓘ The Merry Widow (1934) ⓘ The Painted Veil ⓘ
surface form:
The Painted Veil (1934)
The Thin Man ⓘ
surface form:
The Thin Man (1934)
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| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
studio executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Norma Shearer ⓘ |
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 Thalberg Description of subject: Irving Thalberg was a legendary early Hollywood film producer and studio executive, often called "The Boy Wonder," who helped shape MGM’s golden age and the classic studio system.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
bust of Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Irving Grant Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Thalberg
subject surface form:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
subject surface form:
The Mysterious Lady
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
subject surface form:
Flesh and the Devil
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Irving G. Thalberg
this entity surface form:
Thalberg