Clare West
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Clare West was an early Hollywood costume designer known for her influential work on major silent films, including collaborations with director Cecil B. DeMille.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clare West canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017424 — 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: Clare West Context triple: [The King of Kings (1927 film), costumeDesigner, Clare West]
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Hetta Carbury
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Emily Carmichael
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C.
Lucy Kirk
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D.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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E.
Bethany
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- 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: Clare West Target entity description: Clare West was an early Hollywood costume designer known for her influential work on major silent films, including collaborations with director Cecil B. DeMille.
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A.
Hetta Carbury
Hetta Carbury is a principled and intelligent young woman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," whose romantic and moral choices highlight the book’s critique of Victorian society and financial corruption.
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B.
Emily Carmichael
Emily Carmichael is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her work on genre films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and for her distinctive, imaginative storytelling style.
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C.
Lucy Kirk
Lucy Kirk was the wife of New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk and served as the country's First Lady during his time in office in the early 1970s.
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D.
Asia Booth Clarke
Asia Booth Clarke was a 19th-century American writer and memoirist best known for her intimate accounts of the Booth theatrical family, including her brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth.
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E.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costume designer
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person ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1920s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Cecil B. DeMille ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedForFilm |
Joan the Woman
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Male and Female (1919 film) ⓘ The Affairs of Anatol ⓘ The Cheat ⓘ The Little American ⓘ The Squaw Man (1914 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Squaw Man (1918 film)
The Ten Commandments (1923 film) ⓘ The Whispering Chorus ⓘ The Woman God Forgot ⓘ |
| employer |
Famous Players Film Company
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surface form:
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Hollywood costume design ⓘ |
| knownFor | elaborate historical costumes ⓘ |
| movement | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with Cecil B. DeMille
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early Hollywood costume design ⓘ work on major silent films ⓘ |
| notableWorkAspect |
large-scale period productions
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orientalist and exotic costume styles ⓘ |
| occupation | costume designer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workPeriod | silent film era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Clare West Description of subject: Clare West was an early Hollywood costume designer known for her influential work on major silent films, including collaborations with director Cecil B. DeMille.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.