William Holmes
E432721
William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Holmes canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356487 — 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: William Holmes Context triple: [Sergeant York, editedBy, William Holmes]
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A.
William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scientific illustrator known for his influential work on Native American cultures and his leadership in major U.S. scientific institutions.
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B.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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E.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
- 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: William Holmes Target entity description: William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
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A.
William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scientific illustrator known for his influential work on Native American cultures and his leadership in major U.S. scientific institutions.
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B.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
Charles McNaughton
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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E.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film award ⓘ film editor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Film Editing ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1942 Academy Awards ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| editor | William Holmes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre | biographical war film ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
biographical film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | editing the film Sergeant York ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sergeant York ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| workedOn | Sergeant York ⓘ |
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: William Holmes Description of subject: William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.