Percy Hilburn
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Percy Hilburn was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on major productions such as the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Percy Hilburn canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3664362 — 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: Percy Hilburn Context triple: [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film), cinematographyBy, Percy Hilburn]
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A.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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B.
Stephen Burbank
Stephen Burbank is a prominent legal scholar and professor known for his expertise in civil procedure and complex litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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C.
William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
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D.
James Hallock
James Hallock is an aviation and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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E.
Arthur Elvin
Arthur Elvin was a British entrepreneur and impresario best known for transforming and managing Wembley Stadium and its associated venues into major centers for sport and entertainment in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Percy Hilburn Target entity description: Percy Hilburn was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on major productions such as the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ."
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A.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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B.
Stephen Burbank
Stephen Burbank is a prominent legal scholar and professor known for his expertise in civil procedure and complex litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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C.
William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
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D.
James Hallock
James Hallock is an aviation and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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E.
Arthur Elvin
Arthur Elvin was a British entrepreneur and impresario best known for transforming and managing Wembley Stadium and its associated venues into major centers for sport and entertainment in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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person ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| contributedTo | epic historical films ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| era | 1920s ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | silent films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | major silent-era productions ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| notableFor | cinematography on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ⓘ |
| notableWorkYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Ben-Hur
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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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: Percy Hilburn Description of subject: Percy Hilburn was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on major productions such as the 1925 epic "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
La Bohème (1926 film)