Paul Weatherwax
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Paul Weatherwax was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions from the 1930s through the 1950s, including several major studio features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Weatherwax canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3998537 — 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: Paul Weatherwax Context triple: [The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film), editingBy, Paul Weatherwax]
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A.
Derek Wise
Derek Wise is a Canadian rapper and member of the duo 88Glam, known for his dark, atmospheric sound and affiliation with The Weeknd’s XO collective.
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B.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
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C.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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D.
Daniel Percival
Daniel Percival is a British television director and producer known for his work on high-profile drama series, including serving as an executive producer on "The Man in the High Castle."
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E.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
- 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: Paul Weatherwax Target entity description: Paul Weatherwax was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions from the 1930s through the 1950s, including several major studio features.
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A.
Derek Wise
Derek Wise is a Canadian rapper and member of the duo 88Glam, known for his dark, atmospheric sound and affiliation with The Weeknd’s XO collective.
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B.
Jack Feore
Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
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C.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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D.
Daniel Percival
Daniel Percival is a British television director and producer known for his work on high-profile drama series, including serving as an executive producer on "The Man in the High Castle."
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E.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | editing major studio features in Hollywood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hollywood film productions of the 1930s
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Hollywood film productions of the 1940s ⓘ Hollywood film productions of the 1950s ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
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: Paul Weatherwax Description of subject: Paul Weatherwax was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions from the 1930s through the 1950s, including several major studio features.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)