Allen M. Davey
E364874
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Allen M. Davey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200998 — 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: Allen M. Davey Context triple: [Mystery of the Wax Museum, cinematographyBy, Allen M. Davey]
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A.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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B.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
Robert H. Richards
Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- 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: Allen M. Davey Target entity description: Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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A.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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B.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
Robert H. Richards
Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century American cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| era | early Technicolor era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | feature films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| medium | motion pictures ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work in Hollywood
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work on early Technicolor films ⓘ |
| notableWorkCharacteristic | early color film photography ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| usedTechnology |
Technicolor
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color cinematography ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Hollywood ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Allen M. Davey Description of subject: Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.