Howard Atherton
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Howard Atherton is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Fatal Attraction," "Bad Timing," and "The Witches."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Atherton canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3086214 — 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: Howard Atherton Context triple: [Fatal Attraction, cinematography, Howard Atherton]
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A.
Richie Ashburn
Richie Ashburn was a Hall of Fame center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies who later became a beloved longtime broadcaster for the team.
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B.
Barney Barnato
Barney Barnato was a prominent 19th-century British diamond magnate and financier who rose from humble origins to become one of the leading figures in South Africa’s diamond industry.
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C.
William Francis Deegan
William Francis Deegan was a New York City civic leader, architect, and Tammany Hall politician who played a prominent role in veterans’ affairs and urban development in the early 20th century.
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D.
Harold L. Sebring
Harold L. Sebring was an American jurist and former Florida Supreme Court justice who served as one of the judges at the post–World War II Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
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E.
Harry Aitken
Harry Aitken was an early American film producer and studio executive best known for backing landmark and controversial silent-era epics such as D. W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation."
- 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: Howard Atherton Target entity description: Howard Atherton is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Fatal Attraction," "Bad Timing," and "The Witches."
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A.
Richie Ashburn
Richie Ashburn was a Hall of Fame center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies who later became a beloved longtime broadcaster for the team.
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B.
Barney Barnato
Barney Barnato was a prominent 19th-century British diamond magnate and financier who rose from humble origins to become one of the leading figures in South Africa’s diamond industry.
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C.
William Francis Deegan
William Francis Deegan was a New York City civic leader, architect, and Tammany Hall politician who played a prominent role in veterans’ affairs and urban development in the early 20th century.
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D.
Harold L. Sebring
Harold L. Sebring was an American jurist and former Florida Supreme Court justice who served as one of the judges at the post–World War II Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
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E.
Harry Aitken
Harry Aitken was an early American film producer and studio executive best known for backing landmark and controversial silent-era epics such as D. W. Griffith’s "The Birth of a Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | work as a cinematographer on major feature films ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Timing
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Fatal Attraction ⓘ The Witches ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bad Timing
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Fatal Attraction ⓘ The Witches ⓘ |
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: Howard Atherton Description of subject: Howard Atherton is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Fatal Attraction," "Bad Timing," and "The Witches."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.