Ralph S. Singleton
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Ralph S. Singleton is an American film director and producer best known for directing the 1990 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Graveyard Shift."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ralph S. Singleton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8244387 — 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: Ralph S. Singleton Context triple: [Graveyard Shift (1990 film), director, Ralph S. Singleton]
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Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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D.
Charles D. Walker
Charles D. Walker is an American engineer and astronaut who became one of the first industry-sponsored payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, conducting commercial microgravity research in orbit.
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E.
Charles H. Roberson
Charles H. Roberson was an American educator and religious leader best known for founding Abilene Christian University, a prominent Christian higher education institution in Texas.
- 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: Ralph S. Singleton Target entity description: Ralph S. Singleton is an American film director and producer best known for directing the 1990 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Graveyard Shift."
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A.
Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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D.
Charles D. Walker
Charles D. Walker is an American engineer and astronaut who became one of the first industry-sponsored payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, conducting commercial microgravity research in orbit.
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E.
Charles H. Roberson
Charles H. Roberson was an American educator and religious leader best known for founding Abilene Christian University, a prominent Christian higher education institution in Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInField | film industry ⓘ |
| basedOn | Stephen King short story "Graveyard Shift" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Graveyard Shift (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfDirectedWork | horror film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing the 1990 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Graveyard Shift" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Graveyard Shift (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ |
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: Ralph S. Singleton Description of subject: Ralph S. Singleton is an American film director and producer best known for directing the 1990 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Graveyard Shift."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.