Clarence Kolster
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Clarence Kolster was an American film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clarence Kolster canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2517114 — 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: Clarence Kolster Context triple: [Frankenstein (1931 film), editedBy, Clarence Kolster]
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A.
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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B.
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).
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C.
Harold G. Kiner
Harold G. Kiner was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
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D.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
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E.
Ray Stark
Ray Stark was a prominent American film producer known for backing major Hollywood hits from the 1960s onward, often collaborating with top stars and directors.
- 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: Clarence Kolster Target entity description: Clarence Kolster was an American film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
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A.
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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B.
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).
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C.
Harold G. Kiner
Harold G. Kiner was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
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D.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
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E.
Ray Stark
Ray Stark was a prominent American film producer known for backing major Hollywood hits from the 1960s onward, often collaborating with top stars and directors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| notability | best known for work on classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableFor | editing classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Clarence Kolster Description of subject: Clarence Kolster was an American film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Frankenstein (1931)
subject linked to:
Frankenstein