deMille
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American person
choreographer
dancer
family name
film director
film producer
playwright
screenwriter
surname
deMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with influential early 20th-century film directors and screenwriters in Hollywood.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1099137 — 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: deMille Context triple: [William C. deMille, familyName, deMille]
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A.
Dayman
Dayman is a fictional heroic persona from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featured in the show's satirical musical storyline.
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B.
Mr. Director
Mr. Director is the formal style of address used for the Cabinet-level head of the United States Office of Management and Budget.
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C.
Darrow
Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
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D.
Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Richard Dreyfuss, known for his roles in films such as "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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E.
Millar
Millar is a surname and variant spelling of Miller, commonly found in English-speaking countries.
- 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: deMille Target entity description: deMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with influential early 20th-century film directors and screenwriters in Hollywood.
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A.
Dayman
Dayman is a fictional heroic persona from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featured in the show's satirical musical storyline.
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B.
Mr. Director
Mr. Director is the formal style of address used for the Cabinet-level head of the United States Office of Management and Budget.
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C.
Darrow
Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
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D.
Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Richard Dreyfuss, known for his roles in films such as "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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E.
Millar
Millar is a surname and variant spelling of Miller, commonly found in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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American person ⓘ American person ⓘ American person ⓘ choreographer ⓘ dancer ⓘ family name ⓘ film director ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
deMille
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deMille ⓘ deMille ⓘ
linked to:
de Mille
deMille ⓘ |
| genre |
biblical epic
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historical epic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Agnes de Mille
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Cecil B. DeMille ⓘ Henry Churchill de Mille ⓘ William C. deMille ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Agnes de Mille
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Henry Churchill de Mille ⓘ William C. deMille ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
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The Ten Commandments (1956 film) ⓘ association with early 20th-century Hollywood cinema ⓘ association with film directors ⓘ association with screenwriters ⓘ choreography for the musical Oklahoma! ⓘ epic films ⓘ founding role in Hollywood studio system ⓘ |
| occupation |
choreographer
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dancer ⓘ educator ⓘ film director ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: deMille Description of subject: deMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with influential early 20th-century film directors and screenwriters in Hollywood.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.