Oscar De Mejo
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Oscar De Mejo was an Italian-born American painter and composer known for his whimsical, surrealist-influenced artworks and for being married to actress Alida Valli.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oscar De Mejo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10888776 — 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: Oscar De Mejo Context triple: [Alida Valli, spouse, Oscar De Mejo]
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A.
Oscar DeCorti
Oscar DeCorti, better known as Iron Eyes Cody, was an American actor famous for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement.
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B.
Dirk De Jonge
Dirk De Jonge was an American communist and political activist best known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case De Jonge v. Oregon, which expanded protections for freedom of assembly.
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C.
Emeric Belasco
Emeric Belasco is a notorious, sadistic millionaire and occultist whose malevolent legacy haunts the infamous Belasco House in the horror novel and film "The Legend of Hell House."
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D.
Nicolas Gonda
Nicolas Gonda is a film producer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Terrence Malick on several critically acclaimed films.
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E.
Michael Salort
Michael Salort is an author best known for co-writing the book "Modelland."
- 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: Oscar De Mejo Target entity description: Oscar De Mejo was an Italian-born American painter and composer known for his whimsical, surrealist-influenced artworks and for being married to actress Alida Valli.
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A.
Oscar DeCorti
Oscar DeCorti, better known as Iron Eyes Cody, was an American actor famous for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement.
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B.
Dirk De Jonge
Dirk De Jonge was an American communist and political activist best known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case De Jonge v. Oregon, which expanded protections for freedom of assembly.
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C.
Emeric Belasco
Emeric Belasco is a notorious, sadistic millionaire and occultist whose malevolent legacy haunts the infamous Belasco House in the horror novel and film "The Legend of Hell House."
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D.
Nicolas Gonda
Nicolas Gonda is a film producer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Terrence Malick on several critically acclaimed films.
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E.
Michael Salort
Michael Salort is an author best known for co-writing the book "Modelland."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian American
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| artStyle | whimsical art ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Italy
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian ⓘ |
| familyName | De Mejo ⓘ |
| genre | surrealist-influenced art ⓘ |
| givenName | Oscar ⓘ |
| movement |
surrealism
ⓘ
linked to:
Surrealism
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| name | Oscar De Mejo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
musical compositions
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surrealist-influenced paintings ⓘ whimsical artworks ⓘ |
| notableWorkField |
music composition
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painting ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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painter ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Alida Valli ⓘ |
| spouseName | Alida Valli ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | film actress ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Oscar De Mejo Description of subject: Oscar De Mejo was an Italian-born American painter and composer known for his whimsical, surrealist-influenced artworks and for being married to actress Alida Valli.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.