J. Clark Mathis
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J. Clark Mathis is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including lensing the 2006 film "Rocky Balboa."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. Clark Mathis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3209739 — 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: J. Clark Mathis Context triple: [Rocky Balboa (2006 film), cinematography, J. Clark Mathis]
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A.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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B.
Edgar Odell Lovett
Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
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C.
Robert L. Rice
Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
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D.
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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E.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
- 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: J. Clark Mathis Target entity description: J. Clark Mathis is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including lensing the 2006 film "Rocky Balboa."
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A.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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B.
Edgar Odell Lovett
Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
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C.
Robert L. Rice
Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
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D.
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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E.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ feature film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOfPhotography | J. Clark Mathis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
feature films
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television ⓘ |
| notableWork | Rocky Balboa ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| profession | director of photography ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2006 ⓘ |
| workedOn | Rocky Balboa ⓘ |
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: J. Clark Mathis Description of subject: J. Clark Mathis is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including lensing the 2006 film "Rocky Balboa."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.