Edward Dmytryk
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Edward Dmytryk was a prominent American film director and editor, best known as one of the Hollywood Ten and for directing classic films such as "Murder, My Sweet" and "The Caine Mutiny."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Dmytryk canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8291516 — 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: Edward Dmytryk Context triple: [Hands Across the Table, editedBy, Edward Dmytryk]
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A.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen was an American film director and screenwriter best known for socially conscious dramas such as "All the King's Men" and "The Hustler."
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B.
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann was an American film and television director best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the 1955 film "Marty" and for helping bring intimate, character-driven dramas from live television to the big screen.
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C.
Ray Stark
Ray Stark was a prominent American film producer known for backing major Hollywood hits from the 1960s onward, often collaborating with top stars and directors.
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D.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
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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: Edward Dmytryk Target entity description: Edward Dmytryk was a prominent American film director and editor, best known as one of the Hollywood Ten and for directing classic films such as "Murder, My Sweet" and "The Caine Mutiny."
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A.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen was an American film director and screenwriter best known for socially conscious dramas such as "All the King's Men" and "The Hustler."
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B.
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann was an American film and television director best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the 1955 film "Marty" and for helping bring intimate, character-driven dramas from live television to the big screen.
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C.
Ray Stark
Ray Stark was a prominent American film producer known for backing major Hollywood hits from the 1960s onward, often collaborating with top stars and directors.
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D.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
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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 director
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film editor ⓘ member of the Hollywood Ten ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm | 1930s–1970s ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Picture (The Caine Mutiny) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-09-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-07-01 ⓘ |
| directed |
Cornered
NERFINISHED
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Crossfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitler's Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirage NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder, My Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Raintree County NERFINISHED ⓘ The Caine Mutiny NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sniper NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Warlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
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Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ Paramount Pictures ⓘ RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Texas at Austin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Dmytryk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Dmytryk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | film noir ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hollywood Ten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | film noir ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cornered
NERFINISHED
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Crossfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitler's Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirage NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder, My Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Raintree County NERFINISHED ⓘ The Caine Mutiny NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sniper NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young Lions NERFINISHED ⓘ Warlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEvent | Hollywood blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | House Un-American Activities Committee hearings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
It’s a Hell of a Life But Not a Bad Living
NERFINISHED
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On Film Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ On Screenwriting 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: Edward Dmytryk Description of subject: Edward Dmytryk was a prominent American film director and editor, best known as one of the Hollywood Ten and for directing classic films such as "Murder, My Sweet" and "The Caine Mutiny."
Referenced by (10)
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