Floyd Crosby
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Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Floyd Crosby canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928667 — 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: Floyd Crosby Context triple: [The Raven (1963 film), cinematographyBy, Floyd Crosby]
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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.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis was a British television writer and script editor best known for his work on Doctor Who, including co-creating the iconic Cybermen.
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C.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in multiple World Series.
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D.
Gary Crosby
Gary Crosby was an American singer and actor, known both for his work in film, television, and music and for being the son of entertainer Bing Crosby.
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E.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
- 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: Floyd Crosby Target entity description: Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
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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.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis was a British television writer and script editor best known for his work on Doctor Who, including co-creating the iconic Cybermen.
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C.
Gerry Davis
Gerry Davis is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for working numerous postseason games and serving as a crew chief in multiple World Series.
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D.
Gary Crosby
Gary Crosby was an American singer and actor, known both for his work in film, television, and music and for being the son of entertainer Bing Crosby.
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E.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Floyd Crosby Description of subject: Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum
subject linked to:
House of Usher
subject linked to:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1963 film "The Haunted Palace")