Howard E. Smith
E625764
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed drama "Glengarry Glen Ross."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard E. Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889495 — 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: Howard E. Smith Context triple: [Glengarry Glen Ross, editor, Howard E. Smith]
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A.
Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith was a powerful mid-20th-century Virginia congressman and conservative Democrat known for his influential role on the House Rules Committee and his opposition to New Deal and civil rights legislation.
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B.
Howard A. Smith
Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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C.
Lewis Deschler
Lewis Deschler was a long-serving and influential Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and rules.
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D.
Theodor Mundt
Theodor Mundt was a 19th-century German writer, critic, and journalist associated with the liberal literary movement Young Germany.
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E.
James Eastland
James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
- 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: Howard E. Smith Target entity description: Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed drama "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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A.
Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith was a powerful mid-20th-century Virginia congressman and conservative Democrat known for his influential role on the House Rules Committee and his opposition to New Deal and civil rights legislation.
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B.
Howard A. Smith
Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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C.
Lewis Deschler
Lewis Deschler was a long-serving and influential Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and rules.
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D.
Theodor Mundt
Theodor Mundt was a 19th-century German writer, critic, and journalist associated with the liberal literary movement Young Germany.
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E.
James Eastland
James Eastland was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Mississippi known for his staunch segregationist views and influential role within the Southern Democratic bloc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| knownFor | Glengarry Glen Ross ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | Glengarry Glen Ross ⓘ |
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: Howard E. Smith Description of subject: Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed drama "Glengarry Glen Ross."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.