Phillips Smalley
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Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phillips Smalley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9234514 — 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: Phillips Smalley Context triple: [Where Are My Children?, director, Phillips Smalley]
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A.
Thomas Bartee
Thomas Bartee was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to algebraic structures in computing and for coauthoring influential texts with Garrett Birkhoff.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Samuel H. Smith
Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
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D.
Charles Jennings
Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
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E.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
- 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: Phillips Smalley Target entity description: Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
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A.
Thomas Bartee
Thomas Bartee was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to algebraic structures in computing and for coauthoring influential texts with Garrett Birkhoff.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Samuel H. Smith
Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
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D.
Charles Jennings
Charles Jennings was a Canadian journalist and radio broadcaster, best known for his work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as the father of news anchor Peter Jennings.
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E.
Charles H. Smith
Charles H. Smith was an engineer best known for his role in designing and developing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| basedOn | United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Lois Weber ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
social problem film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | silent film ⓘ |
| movement | socially conscious filmmaking ⓘ |
| notableFor |
silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber
ⓘ
socially conscious drama films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hypocrites
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The Blot ⓘ Where Are My Children? ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | early American cinema ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lois Weber ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Phillips Smalley Description of subject: Phillips Smalley was an early American film director and actor best known for his silent-era collaborations with Lois Weber on socially conscious dramas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.