Victor Fleming
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Victor Fleming was an American film director best known for directing the classic movies "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor Fleming canonical | 39 |
| Victor Fleming (film director) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24904 — 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: Victor Fleming Context triple: [Hollywood Forever Cemetery, hasBurial, Victor Fleming]
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A.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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B.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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C.
Ron Howard
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
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D.
Georg Stumme
Georg Stumme was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who briefly commanded Axis forces in North Africa before his death early in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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E.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
- 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: Victor Fleming Target entity description: Victor Fleming was an American film director best known for directing the classic movies "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind."
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A.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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B.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
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C.
Ron Howard
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
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D.
Georg Stumme
Georg Stumme was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who briefly commanded Axis forces in North Africa before his death early in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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E.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Victor Fleming Description of subject: Victor Fleming was an American film director best known for directing the classic movies "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Victor Fleming
subject linked to:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States
subject linked to:
Captain Disko Troop by Lionel Barrymore