Irving Cummings
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Irving Cummings was an American film director and actor active during the early to mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features including musicals and comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irving Cummings canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8207631 — 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 Cummings Context triple: [The Night Club Lady, director, Irving Cummings]
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A.
Irving Townsend
Irving Townsend was an American record producer and Columbia Records executive best known for overseeing landmark jazz recordings, including Miles Davis’s "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon was an American songwriter best known for penning enduring standards such as "Unforgettable" and other popular mid-20th-century ballads.
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C.
Oscar Broneer
Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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D.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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E.
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an American film director known for his work on classic Hollywood Westerns, film noirs, and adventure films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- 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 Cummings Target entity description: Irving Cummings was an American film director and actor active during the early to mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features including musicals and comedies.
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A.
Irving Townsend
Irving Townsend was an American record producer and Columbia Records executive best known for overseeing landmark jazz recordings, including Miles Davis’s "Kind of Blue."
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B.
Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon was an American songwriter best known for penning enduring standards such as "Unforgettable" and other popular mid-20th-century ballads.
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C.
Oscar Broneer
Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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D.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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E.
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway was an American film director known for his work on classic Hollywood Westerns, film noirs, and adventure films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| child | Irving Cummings Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-10-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1959-04-18 ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
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Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema of the United States
NERFINISHED
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comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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comedy film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterWorkedAs |
film director
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producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| name | Irving Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Belle Starr
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curly Top NERFINISHED ⓘ Down Argentine Way NERFINISHED ⓘ In Old Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Poor Little Rich Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Springtime in the Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ That Night in Rio NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dolly Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startedCareerAs | stage actor ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1900s–1950s ⓘ |
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 Cummings Description of subject: Irving Cummings was an American film director and actor active during the early to mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features including musicals and comedies.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Down Argentine Way