Doane Harrison
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Doane Harrison was an American film editor best known for his long collaboration with director Billy Wilder on numerous classic Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doane Harrison canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882474 — 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: Doane Harrison Context triple: [The Major and the Minor, editor, Doane Harrison]
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A.
H. W. S. Cleveland
H. W. S. Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, park systems, and urban landscapes across the Midwest.
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B.
W. Q. Kennedy
W. Q. Kennedy was a prominent geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, including work that earned him the prestigious Murchison Medal.
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C.
James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian and educator who served as president of Williams College and later became a prominent government intelligence official during World War II.
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D.
Charles F. Chandler
Charles F. Chandler was a prominent 19th-century American chemist and educator who played a key role in professionalizing chemistry in the United States.
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E.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 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: Doane Harrison Target entity description: Doane Harrison was an American film editor best known for his long collaboration with director Billy Wilder on numerous classic Hollywood films.
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A.
H. W. S. Cleveland
H. W. S. Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, park systems, and urban landscapes across the Midwest.
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B.
W. Q. Kennedy
W. Q. Kennedy was a prominent geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, including work that earned him the prestigious Murchison Medal.
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C.
James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian and educator who served as president of Williams College and later became a prominent government intelligence official during World War II.
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D.
Charles F. Chandler
Charles F. Chandler was a prominent 19th-century American chemist and educator who played a key role in professionalizing chemistry in the United States.
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E.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| collaborationPeriod | classical Hollywood era ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| genre | Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| hasNotableCollaboration | Billy Wilder ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration with Billy Wilder
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editing classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Foreign Affair
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Double Indemnity ⓘ Irma la Douce ⓘ Love in the Afternoon ⓘ One, Two, Three ⓘ Sabrina ⓘ Some Like It Hot ⓘ Stalag 17 ⓘ Sunset Boulevard ⓘ The Apartment ⓘ The Big Carnival ⓘ The Lost Weekend ⓘ The Major and the Minor ⓘ The Spirit of St. Louis ⓘ Witness for the Prosecution ⓘ |
| occupation |
film editor
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producer ⓘ |
| workedWith | Billy Wilder ⓘ |
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: Doane Harrison Description of subject: Doane Harrison was an American film editor best known for his long collaboration with director Billy Wilder on numerous classic Hollywood films.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lady in the Dark (1944 film)