Sidney Wagner
E381131
Sidney Wagner was an American cinematographer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1946 adaptation of "The Yearling."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sidney Wagner canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326189 — 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: Sidney Wagner Context triple: [The Yearling (1946 film), cinematographer, Sidney Wagner]
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A.
Walter Wolfrum
Walter Wolfrum was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II, credited with numerous aerial victories on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf was an American composer, arranger, and conductor best known for his prolific work in film and television scores during the mid-20th century.
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C.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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D.
Walter Herz
Walter Herz was a graphic artist best known for designing the official poster for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
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E.
Walter Blume
Walter Blume was a German aircraft designer and former World War I fighter ace best known for his work on advanced Luftwaffe aircraft during the Second World War.
- 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: Sidney Wagner Target entity description: Sidney Wagner was an American cinematographer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1946 adaptation of "The Yearling."
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A.
Walter Wolfrum
Walter Wolfrum was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II, credited with numerous aerial victories on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf was an American composer, arranger, and conductor best known for his prolific work in film and television scores during the mid-20th century.
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C.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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D.
Walter Herz
Walter Herz was a graphic artist best known for designing the official poster for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
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E.
Walter Blume
Walter Blume was a German aircraft designer and former World War I fighter ace best known for his work on advanced Luftwaffe aircraft during the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
ⓘ
cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
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| notableWork | The Yearling (1946 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Yearling (1946 film) ⓘ |
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: Sidney Wagner Description of subject: Sidney Wagner was an American cinematographer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1946 adaptation of "The Yearling."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.