Henry de Mille
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Henry de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his successful stage works and as the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry de Mille canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1099152 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry de Mille Context triple: [William C. deMille, father, Henry de Mille]
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William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram was a prominent Irish-American silent film director of the early 20th century, known for his visually innovative and epic productions in Hollywood.
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C.
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
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D.
John Blount DeMille
John Blount DeMille was a member of the prominent DeMille family connected to early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
- 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: Henry de Mille Target entity description: Henry de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his successful stage works and as the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille.
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A.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram was a prominent Irish-American silent film director of the early 20th century, known for his visually innovative and epic productions in Hollywood.
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C.
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
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D.
John Blount DeMille
John Blount DeMille was a member of the prominent DeMille family connected to early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Henry Churchill de Mille ⓘ |
| child |
Cecil B. DeMille
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William C. deMille ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | David Belasco ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1853-09-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1893-02-10 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Agnes de Mille ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Henry de Mille ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille
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successful American stage plays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Charity Ball
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The Wife ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, North Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
New York City
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| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse |
Beatrice deMille
ⓘ
linked to:
Beatrice DeMille
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| taughtAt | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute ⓘ |
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: Henry de Mille Description of subject: Henry de Mille was an American playwright and educator of the late 19th century, known for his successful stage works and as the father of film directors William C. deMille and Cecil B. DeMille.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.