Vidor
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Vidor is a surname most notably associated with King Vidor, an influential American film director of the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vidor canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2498166 — 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: Vidor Context triple: [King Vidor, familyName, Vidor]
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A.
Monte Hellman
Monte Hellman was an American film director and producer best known for his influential low-budget cult classics, including the road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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B.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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D.
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his ambitious, visually striking dramas and his Oscar-winning work on the Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter."
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E.
André De Toth
André De Toth was a Hungarian-American film director best known for his work in film noir and 3D horror, including the classic "House of Wax" (1953).
- 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: Vidor Target entity description: Vidor is a surname most notably associated with King Vidor, an influential American film director of the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Monte Hellman
Monte Hellman was an American film director and producer best known for his influential low-budget cult classics, including the road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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B.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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D.
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his ambitious, visually striking dramas and his Oscar-winning work on the Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter."
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E.
André De Toth
André De Toth was a Hungarian-American film director best known for his work in film noir and 3D horror, including the classic "House of Wax" (1953).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
ⓘ
mid-20th century ⓘ |
| category |
Hungarian-language surnames
ⓘ
Italian-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Vidor ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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epic film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | King ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Charles Vidor
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Gábor Vidor ⓘ King Vidor ⓘ Károly Vidor ⓘ Róbert Vidor ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Hungarian
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| movement |
Classical Hollywood cinema
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duel in the Sun
ⓘ
Gilda ⓘ Hallelujah! ⓘ Love Me or Leave Me ⓘ Stella Dallas ⓘ The Big Parade ⓘ The Crowd ⓘ War and Peace (1956 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | King Vidor ⓘ |
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: Vidor Description of subject: Vidor is a surname most notably associated with King Vidor, an influential American film director of the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.