Tom Held
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Tom Held was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for his work on major studio productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Held canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201112 — 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: Tom Held Context triple: [Viva Villa!, editingBy, Tom Held]
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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C.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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D.
Tom Constanten
Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his late-1960s tenure with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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E.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
- 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: Tom Held Target entity description: Tom Held was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for his work on major studio productions.
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A.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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C.
Lee Clow
Lee Clow is a legendary American advertising executive best known for his groundbreaking work at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where he helped create iconic campaigns for Apple and other major brands.
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D.
Tom Constanten
Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his late-1960s tenure with the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead.
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E.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early sound era of American cinema ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | film editing during Hollywood’s early sound era ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | major studio productions ⓘ |
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: Tom Held Description of subject: Tom Held was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s early sound era, known for his work on major studio productions.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.