Mike Todd
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Mike Todd was an American film producer best known for producing the Oscar-winning epic "Around the World in 80 Days" and for being the third husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Todd canonical | 15 |
| Michael Todd | 6 |
| Hollywood film producer Mike Todd | 1 |
| Mike Todd Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1556406 — 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: Mike Todd Context triple: [Elizabeth Taylor, spouse, Mike Todd]
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A.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
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B.
Dore Schary
Dore Schary was an American screenwriter, producer, and studio executive best known for his influential tenure at MGM and his socially conscious films in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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C.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous influential Hollywood films from the 1960s onward.
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E.
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel was an acclaimed Austrian-American film producer known for epic classics such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," and "On the Waterfront."
- 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: Mike Todd Target entity description: Mike Todd was an American film producer best known for producing the Oscar-winning epic "Around the World in 80 Days" and for being the third husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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A.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
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B.
Dore Schary
Dore Schary was an American screenwriter, producer, and studio executive best known for his influential tenure at MGM and his socially conscious films in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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C.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous influential Hollywood films from the 1960s onward.
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E.
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel was an acclaimed Austrian-American film producer known for epic classics such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," and "On the Waterfront."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film producer
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feature film ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ widescreen film format ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm | 1950s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mike Todd
ⓘ
surface form:
Michael Todd
Mike Todd ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Picture
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Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ |
| birthName | Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Forest Park, Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Forest Park, Illinois, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | aviation accident ⓘ |
| child |
Liza Todd
ⓘ
Mike Todd self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mike Todd Jr.
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1909-06-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1958-03-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1957-02-02 ⓘ |
| developer | Mike Todd self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish Americans
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surface form:
Jewish American
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | adventure film ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| influenced | development of widescreen cinema ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | plane crash ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering use of 70 mm film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lavish film productions
ⓘ
theatrical productions on Broadway ⓘ |
| notableProject | Todd-AO ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Around the World in 80 Days
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surface form:
Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
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| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
theatre producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Minneapolis
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surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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| placeOfDeath | near Grants, New Mexico, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfMarriage |
Acapulco
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surface form:
Acapulco, Mexico
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| positionInSpouseOrder | third husband of Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ |
| producer | Mike Todd self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse |
Bertha Freshman
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Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ Joan Blondell ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Broadway musical "Mexican Hayride"
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Broadway production "Call Me Ziggy" ⓘ |
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: Mike Todd Description of subject: Mike Todd was an American film producer best known for producing the Oscar-winning epic "Around the World in 80 Days" and for being the third husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd
subject surface form:
Elizabeth Taylor
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd
subject surface form:
Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
this entity surface form:
Hollywood film producer Mike Todd
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd
this entity surface form:
Michael Todd