Sidney Levin
E342007
Sidney Levin was a film editor best known for his work on influential American movies such as Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama "Mean Streets."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sidney Levin canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173122 — 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: Sidney Levin Context triple: [Mean Streets, editedBy, Sidney Levin]
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A.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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B.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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C.
John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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D.
Richard N. Gladstein
Richard N. Gladstein is an American film producer known for his work on numerous acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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E.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Sidney Levin Target entity description: Sidney Levin was a film editor best known for his work on influential American movies such as Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama "Mean Streets."
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A.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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B.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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C.
John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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D.
Richard N. Gladstein
Richard N. Gladstein is an American film producer known for his work on numerous acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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E.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mean Streets ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | Mean Streets ⓘ |
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: Sidney Levin Description of subject: Sidney Levin was a film editor best known for his work on influential American movies such as Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama "Mean Streets."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.