William C. deMille
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William C. deMille canonical | 36 |
| William C. DeMille | 6 |
| Rex Ingram | 1 |
| William C. de Mille | 1 |
| William C. deMille is son of Henry Churchill de Mille | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170962 — 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: William C. deMille Context triple: [Cecil B. DeMille, sibling, William C. deMille]
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Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille was a Canadian-born American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions.
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D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director of the silent era, best known for developing many foundational cinematic techniques and directing influential early feature films.
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Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
- 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: William C. deMille Target entity description: 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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A.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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B.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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C.
Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille was a Canadian-born American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions.
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D.
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director of the silent era, best known for developing many foundational cinematic techniques and directing influential early feature films.
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E.
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Ernest B. Schoedsack was an American film director and cinematographer best known for co-directing the classic adventure-horror film "King Kong" (1933).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: William C. deMille Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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deMille
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The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film adaptation)
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The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film adaptation)
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The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
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The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
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The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
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Blanche de Mille (stepmother)
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Blanche de Mille (stepmother)
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