Leo McCarey
E421782
Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his influential work in both comedy and drama during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leo McCarey canonical | 17 |
| interview with Leo McCarey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4232898 — 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: Leo McCarey Context triple: [An Affair to Remember, director, Leo McCarey]
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A.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
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B.
Walter Lang
Walter Lang was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals and comedies during the 1930s–1950s.
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C.
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli was an American film director best known for his visually distinctive and influential Hollywood musicals, including classics like "An American in Paris" and "Gigi."
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D.
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
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E.
Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
- 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: Leo McCarey Target entity description: Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his influential work in both comedy and drama during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
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A.
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian-American film director best known for helming classic Hollywood films such as "Casablanca."
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B.
Walter Lang
Walter Lang was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals and comedies during the 1930s–1950s.
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C.
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli was an American film director best known for his visually distinctive and influential Hollywood musicals, including classics like "An American in Paris" and "Gigi."
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D.
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer known for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, including a key role in bringing "The Wizard of Oz" to the screen.
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E.
Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor was a Hungarian-American film director best known for classic Hollywood movies such as "Gilda" and other major studio productions of the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award winner
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Director
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Original Story
|
| awardReceivedFor |
Going My Way
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Awful Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1898-10-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-07-05 ⓘ |
| directed |
An Affair to Remember
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duck Soup NERFINISHED ⓘ Going My Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ Make Way for Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ My Son John ONDG ⓘ Once Upon a Honeymoon ONDG ⓘ Ruggles of Red Gap ⓘ The Awful Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bells of St. Mary's ⓘ The Milky Way ONDG ⓘ |
| employer |
Hal Roach Studios
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Paramount Pictures ⓘ RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| era | Classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| familyName | McCarey ONDG ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Leo McCarey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Leo
ONDG
ⓘ
Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Hollywood Golden Age ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Affair to Remember
ⓘ
Duck Soup ONDG ⓘ Going My Way ⓘ Love Affair ⓘ Make Way for Tomorrow ⓘ The Awful Truth ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Santa Monica NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Laurel and Hardy
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Marx Brothers ⓘ |
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: Leo McCarey Description of subject: Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his influential work in both comedy and drama during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics like "The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ambassador Trentino
this entity surface form:
interview with Leo McCarey