Sam Leavitt
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Sam Leavitt was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including several acclaimed mid-20th-century productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Leavitt canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984265 — 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: Sam Leavitt Context triple: [A Star Is Born (1954 film), cinematography, Sam Leavitt]
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William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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B.
Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is an American businessman who serves as the longtime chief executive and chairman of Comcast, one of the world’s largest media and telecommunications companies.
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C.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson is an American comic book publisher and film producer best known as the founder of Dark Horse Comics and for producing numerous comic-based films and television projects.
- 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: Sam Leavitt Target entity description: Sam Leavitt was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including several acclaimed mid-20th-century productions.
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A.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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B.
Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is an American businessman who serves as the longtime chief executive and chairman of Comcast, one of the world’s largest media and telecommunications companies.
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C.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson is an American comic book publisher and film producer best known as the founder of Dark Horse Comics and for producing numerous comic-based films and television projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| industry | Hollywood film industry ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anatomy of a Murder
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Exodus ⓘ The Defiant Ones ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
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: Sam Leavitt Description of subject: Sam Leavitt was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including several acclaimed mid-20th-century productions.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.