DeMille
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DeMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with pioneering Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille and his relatives in the early motion picture industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DeMille canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070345 — 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: DeMille Context triple: [Cecilia DeMille Harper, familyName, DeMille]
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A.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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B.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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D.
King Vidor
King Vidor was an influential American film director of Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for classics such as "The Big Parade," "The Crowd," and his uncredited work on "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director of the silent era, best known for developing many foundational cinematic techniques and directing influential early feature films.
- 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: DeMille Target entity description: DeMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with pioneering Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille and his relatives in the early motion picture industry.
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A.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille was a pioneering American film director and producer, famed for his epic biblical and historical movies such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra."
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B.
Richard DeMille
Richard DeMille was an American writer and psychologist known for his critical examinations of Carlos Castaneda’s work and for being the adopted son of famed film director Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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D.
King Vidor
King Vidor was an influential American film director of Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for classics such as "The Big Parade," "The Crowd," and his uncredited work on "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director of the silent era, best known for developing many foundational cinematic techniques and directing influential early feature films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: DeMille Description of subject: DeMille is a notable American family name most famously associated with pioneering Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille and his relatives in the early motion picture industry.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cecil B. DeMille
subject surface form:
Cecil B. DeMille