Homer Smith
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Homer Smith is the itinerant African American handyman and ex-GI who helps a group of German nuns build a chapel in the novel and film "Lilies of the Field."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homer Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120173 — 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: Homer Smith Context triple: [Lilies of the Field, character, Homer Smith]
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A.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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B.
Homer Murray
Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
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C.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Eugene Miller
Eugene Miller was a screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Ned Homfeld
Ned Homfeld is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Spirit Airlines, a major U.S. ultra-low-cost carrier.
- 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: Homer Smith Target entity description: Homer Smith is the itinerant African American handyman and ex-GI who helps a group of German nuns build a chapel in the novel and film "Lilies of the Field."
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A.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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B.
Homer Murray
Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
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C.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Eugene Miller
Eugene Miller was a screenwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "The Mark of Zorro."
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E.
Ned Homfeld
Ned Homfeld is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Spirit Airlines, a major U.S. ultra-low-cost carrier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Lilies of the Field
ⓘ
surface form:
Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
Lilies of the Field ⓘ
surface form:
Lilies of the Field (novel)
|
| associatedTheme |
cross-cultural understanding
ⓘ
faith ⓘ race relations ⓘ service ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
independent
ⓘ
proud ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | William Edmund Barrett ⓘ |
| employmentStatus | itinerant worker ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
drama film
ⓘ
religious drama ⓘ |
| helps | group of German nuns ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
motion picture
ⓘ
prose fiction ⓘ |
| militaryBackground | ex-GI ⓘ |
| notableAction | helps build a chapel ⓘ |
| occupation | handyman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sidney Poitier ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Catholic nuns ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
|
| transportation | station wagon ⓘ |
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: Homer Smith Description of subject: Homer Smith is the itinerant African American handyman and ex-GI who helps a group of German nuns build a chapel in the novel and film "Lilies of the Field."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.