Herbert Ross
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Herbert Ross was an American choreographer and film director known for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, including acclaimed movies such as "The Goodbye Girl" and "Steel Magnolias."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert Ross canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3170452 — 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: Herbert Ross Context triple: [Do I Hear a Waltz?, choreographer, Herbert Ross]
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A.
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller was a Canadian-born film director best known for popular Hollywood movies such as "Love Story" and "The In-Laws."
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B.
Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich was an American film director and producer known for his gritty, hard-edged movies such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "The Dirty Dozen."
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C.
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann was an American film and television director best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the 1955 film "Marty" and for helping bring intimate, character-driven dramas from live television to the big screen.
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D.
Robert Mulligan
Robert Mulligan was an American film director best known for his sensitive, character-driven dramas, including the acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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E.
Tim Zinnemann
Tim Zinnemann is an American film producer and assistant director, known for his work on movies such as "The Running Man" and "Clear and Present Danger."
- 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: Herbert Ross Target entity description: Herbert Ross was an American choreographer and film director known for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, including acclaimed movies such as "The Goodbye Girl" and "Steel Magnolias."
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A.
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller was a Canadian-born film director best known for popular Hollywood movies such as "Love Story" and "The In-Laws."
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B.
Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich was an American film director and producer known for his gritty, hard-edged movies such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "The Dirty Dozen."
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C.
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann was an American film and television director best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the 1955 film "Marty" and for helping bring intimate, character-driven dramas from live television to the big screen.
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D.
Robert Mulligan
Robert Mulligan was an American film director best known for his sensitive, character-driven dramas, including the acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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E.
Tim Zinnemann
Tim Zinnemann is an American film producer and assistant director, known for his work on movies such as "The Running Man" and "Clear and Present Danger."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Herbert Ross Description of subject: Herbert Ross was an American choreographer and film director known for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, including acclaimed movies such as "The Goodbye Girl" and "Steel Magnolias."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.