Jack E. Cox
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Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack E. Cox canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884364 — 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: Jack E. Cox Context triple: [Blackmail (1929 film), cinematographyBy, Jack E. Cox]
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A.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
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B.
Robert F. Colesberry
Robert F. Colesberry was an American film and television producer and director best known for helping shape the visual style and production of acclaimed series like *The Wire* and *Homicide: Life on the Street*.
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C.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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D.
John T. Towers
John T. Towers was a 19th-century American printer and politician who served as mayor of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
- 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: Jack E. Cox Target entity description: Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
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A.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
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B.
Robert F. Colesberry
Robert F. Colesberry was an American film and television producer and director best known for helping shape the visual style and production of acclaimed series like *The Wire* and *Homicide: Life on the Street*.
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C.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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D.
John T. Towers
John T. Towers was a 19th-century American printer and politician who served as mayor of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
British International Pictures
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Gainsborough Pictures ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | cinematography on early Alfred Hitchcock films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blackmail (1929 film)
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linked to:
Blackmail
The Ring (1927 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Blackmail (1929 film)
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linked to:
Blackmail
Champagne (1928 film) ⓘ Murder! (1930 film) ⓘ Number Seventeen (1932 film) ⓘ The Farmer's Wife (1928 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Farmer’s Wife
The Manxman (1929 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Manxman
The Ring (1927 film) ⓘ The Skin Game (1931 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Skin Game
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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: Jack E. Cox Description of subject: Jack E. Cox was a British cinematographer active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his work on several of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.