Louis de Rochemont
E335058
Louis de Rochemont was an American film producer and documentarian best known for creating the newsreel series "The March of Time" and for pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louis de Rochemont canonical | 4 |
| Louis de Rochemont Productions | 1 |
| Robert Flaherty | 1 |
| de Rochemont | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3201743 — 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.
Target entity: Louis de Rochemont Context triple: [Boomerang!, producer, Louis de Rochemont]
-
A.
Herbert Lange
Herbert Lange was an SS officer and early commandant of the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp, where he played a key role in developing and implementing mass murder techniques during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Walter Fuller
Walter Fuller was a British-born journalist, editor, and political activist known for his work in progressive and pacifist causes in the early 20th century.
-
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.
-
D.
William Beaudine
William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
-
E.
Léon Gaumont
Léon Gaumont was a pioneering French film producer and studio founder who played a key role in the early development of the motion picture industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Louis de Rochemont Target entity description: Louis de Rochemont was an American film producer and documentarian best known for creating the newsreel series "The March of Time" and for pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema.
-
A.
Herbert Lange
Herbert Lange was an SS officer and early commandant of the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp, where he played a key role in developing and implementing mass murder techniques during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Walter Fuller
Walter Fuller was a British-born journalist, editor, and political activist known for his work in progressive and pacifist causes in the early 20th century.
-
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.
-
D.
William Beaudine
William Beaudine was a highly prolific American film and television director whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1960s, encompassing hundreds of low-budget features and TV episodes.
-
E.
Léon Gaumont
Léon Gaumont was a pioneering French film producer and studio founder who played a key role in the early development of the motion picture industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
documentary filmmaker ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf | The March of Time ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-01-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-12-23 ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
Time Inc. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Louis de Rochemont
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
de Rochemont
|
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
documentary film ⓘ newsreels ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
ⓘ
semi-documentary film ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | documentary realism in narrative feature films ⓘ |
| influenced | development of semi-documentary crime films in Hollywood ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the newsreel series "The March of Time"
ⓘ
pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Louis de Rochemont self-link ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Documentary (The March of Time newsreels contributed to recognition)
|
| notableWork | The March of Time ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chelsea, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
| placeOfDeath |
Newington, New Hampshire
ⓘ
surface form:
Newington, New Hampshire, United States of America
|
| productionCompany | Louis de Rochemont Associates ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy Julia Pennebaker
ⓘ
surface form:
Virginia de Rochemont
|
| workedOn |
Boomerang!
ⓘ
Call Northside 777 ⓘ Lost Boundaries ⓘ The House on 92nd Street ⓘ Walk East on Beacon ⓘ Windjammer ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Louis de Rochemont Description of subject: Louis de Rochemont was an American film producer and documentarian best known for creating the newsreel series "The March of Time" and for pioneering a semi-documentary style in mid-20th-century cinema.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.