Lloyd C. Douglas
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Lloyd C. Douglas was an American minister and bestselling novelist known for inspirational religious dramas such as "Magnificent Obsession" and "The Robe."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lloyd C. Douglas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2953539 — 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: Lloyd C. Douglas Context triple: [Magnificent Obsession (1954 film), authorOfSourceWork, Lloyd C. Douglas]
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Ferdinand L. Barnett
Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Harvey W. Loomis
Harvey W. Loomis was an American composer and music educator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his songs, choral works, and contributions to musical pedagogy.
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C.
Frank V. DuMond
Frank V. DuMond was an American painter and influential art instructor associated with the Art Students League of New York, known for his landscapes, portraits, and role in training many prominent artists.
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D.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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E.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
- 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: Lloyd C. Douglas Target entity description: Lloyd C. Douglas was an American minister and bestselling novelist known for inspirational religious dramas such as "Magnificent Obsession" and "The Robe."
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A.
Ferdinand L. Barnett
Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Harvey W. Loomis
Harvey W. Loomis was an American composer and music educator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his songs, choral works, and contributions to musical pedagogy.
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C.
Frank V. DuMond
Frank V. DuMond was an American painter and influential art instructor associated with the Art Students League of New York, known for his landscapes, portraits, and role in training many prominent artists.
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D.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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E.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian minister
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1877-08-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-02-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hamma Divinity School
NERFINISHED
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Wittenberg College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Congregational Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lutheran Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
inspirational fiction
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religious fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Christian inspirational literature ⓘ |
| name | Lloyd C. Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
bestselling author in the 1930s and 1940s
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wrote inspirational religious dramas ⓘ |
| notableFor | bestselling religious novels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Disputed Passage
NERFINISHED
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Green Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnificent Obsession NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Fisherman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Robe NERFINISHED ⓘ White Banners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
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minister ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Columbia City, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
minister
ⓘ
pastor ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workAdaptedInto |
Magnificent Obsession (1935 film)
NERFINISHED
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Magnificent Obsession (1954 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Fisherman (1959 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Robe (1953 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Lloyd C. Douglas Description of subject: Lloyd C. Douglas was an American minister and bestselling novelist known for inspirational religious dramas such as "Magnificent Obsession" and "The Robe."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Magnificent Obsession (1954 film)