Delmer Daves
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Delmer Daves was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood dramas and Westerns such as "3:10 to Yuma" and "Broken Arrow."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delmer Daves canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3911710 — 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: Delmer Daves Context triple: [Pride of the Marines, director, Delmer Daves]
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
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C.
Robert McLane
Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
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D.
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera work in early Hollywood, notably becoming the only write-in Academy Award winner for his cinematography.
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E.
Lee Flaherty
Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
- 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: Delmer Daves Target entity description: Delmer Daves was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood dramas and Westerns such as "3:10 to Yuma" and "Broken Arrow."
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
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C.
Robert McLane
Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
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D.
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera work in early Hollywood, notably becoming the only write-in Academy Award winner for his cinematography.
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E.
Lee Flaherty
Lee Flaherty is an American businessman and race organizer best known for creating and launching the Chicago Marathon in the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)
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surface form:
3:10 to Yuma
A Summer Place ⓘ Broken Arrow ⓘ Cowboy ⓘ Dark Passage ⓘ Destination Tokyo ⓘ Jubal ⓘ The Hanging Tree ⓘ |
| familyName | Daves ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Delmer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Classical Hollywood cinema
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| name | Delmer Daves self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns
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surface form:
Hollywood Westerns
Hollywood dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
3:10 to Yuma
ⓘ
A Summer Place ⓘ Broken Arrow ⓘ Cowboy ⓘ Dark Passage ⓘ Destination Tokyo ⓘ Harmon Jones ⓘ
surface form:
Jubal
The Hanging Tree ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)
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surface form:
3:10 to Yuma
A Summer Place ⓘ Broken Arrow ⓘ Cowboy ⓘ Dark Passage ⓘ Destination Tokyo ⓘ Jubal ⓘ The Hanging Tree ⓘ |
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: Delmer Daves Description of subject: Delmer Daves was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood dramas and Westerns such as "3:10 to Yuma" and "Broken Arrow."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.