Ted D. McCord
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Ted D. McCord was an American cinematographer renowned for his richly textured black-and-white and color photography on classic films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, East of Eden, and The Sound of Music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted D. McCord canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3213152 — 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: Ted D. McCord Context triple: [East of Eden, cinematographer, Ted D. McCord]
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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C.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
- 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: Ted D. McCord Target entity description: Ted D. McCord was an American cinematographer renowned for his richly textured black-and-white and color photography on classic films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, East of Eden, and The Sound of Music.
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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C.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
USA
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film industry ⓘ |
| familyName | McCord ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
black-and-white cinematography
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color cinematography ⓘ |
| givenName | Ted ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
richly textured black-and-white photography
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richly textured color photography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
East of Eden
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The Sound of Music ⓘ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ⓘ classic American films ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema history ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
East of Eden
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The Sound of Music ⓘ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Ted D. McCord Description of subject: Ted D. McCord was an American cinematographer renowned for his richly textured black-and-white and color photography on classic films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, East of Eden, and The Sound of Music.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.