Alan Crosland
E234302
Alan Crosland was an American film director best known for pioneering early sound cinema with the landmark film "The Jazz Singer" (1927).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Crosland canonical | 12 |
| Alan Crosland Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1263181 — 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: Alan Crosland Context triple: [Don Juan (1926 film), director, Alan Crosland]
-
A.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
-
B.
Bob Dolman
Bob Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on fantasy and comedy films and television, including co-writing the cult classic movie "Willow."
-
C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
-
D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
-
E.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
- 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: Alan Crosland Target entity description: Alan Crosland was an American film director best known for pioneering early sound cinema with the landmark film "The Jazz Singer" (1927).
-
A.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
-
B.
Bob Dolman
Bob Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on fantasy and comedy films and television, including co-writing the cult classic movie "Willow."
-
C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
-
D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
-
E.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alan Crosland Description of subject: Alan Crosland was an American film director best known for pioneering early sound cinema with the landmark film "The Jazz Singer" (1927).
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alan Crosland
subject linked to:
Alan Crosland
subject linked to:
The Beloved Rogue (1927 film)