Joe May
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Joe May was an Austrian-born film director and producer prominent in early German cinema and later Hollywood, known for his work in silent epics and genre films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe May canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9730630 — 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: Joe May Context triple: [The House of the Seven Gables (1940 film), director, Joe May]
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A.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
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B.
Roy Munson
Roy Munson is the hapless, once-promising professional bowler turned down-on-his-luck hustler portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the comedy film "Kingpin."
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C.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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D.
Hank Booth
Hank Booth is a recurring character on the television series "Bones," known as Seeley Booth's grandfather and a former Army veteran.
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E.
Irwin Wade
Irwin Wade is a fictional World War II combat medic and member of the squad in the film "Saving Private Ryan."
- 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: Joe May Target entity description: Joe May was an Austrian-born film director and producer prominent in early German cinema and later Hollywood, known for his work in silent epics and genre films.
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A.
Walt Willey
Walt Willey is an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Jackson Montgomery on the soap opera "All My Children."
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B.
Roy Munson
Roy Munson is the hapless, once-promising professional bowler turned down-on-his-luck hustler portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the comedy film "Kingpin."
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C.
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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D.
Hank Booth
Hank Booth is a recurring character on the television series "Bones," known as Seeley Booth's grandfather and a former Army veteran.
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E.
Irwin Wade
Irwin Wade is a fictional World War II combat medic and member of the squad in the film "Saving Private Ryan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian person
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Hollywood film industry
NERFINISHED
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Weimar Republic film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Julius Otto Mandl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
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Germany ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1880-11-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1954-04-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
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surface form:
Jewish people
|
| familyName | Mandl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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crime film ⓘ epic film ⓘ melodrama ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Julius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| movement | German silent cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering large-scale silent film epics in Germany
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transitioning from European silent cinema to Hollywood talkies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Asphalt
NERFINISHED
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Confession NERFINISHED ⓘ Heimkehr NERFINISHED ⓘ The House of the Seven Gables NERFINISHED ⓘ The Indian Tomb NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invisible Man Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ The Strange Countess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Hollywood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| relative | Eva May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mia May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Joe May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Austria
NERFINISHED
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Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Joe May Description of subject: Joe May was an Austrian-born film director and producer prominent in early German cinema and later Hollywood, known for his work in silent epics and genre films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.