Howard E. Smith
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Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on genre films such as the cult vampire movie "Near Dark."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard E. Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11329904 — 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: Howard E. Smith Context triple: [Near Dark, editedBy, Howard E. Smith]
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A.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed drama "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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B.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the thriller "Snakes on a Plane."
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C.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the shark thriller "Deep Blue Sea."
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D.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the action thriller "Point Break."
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E.
Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith was a powerful mid-20th-century Virginia congressman and conservative Democrat known for his influential role on the House Rules Committee and his opposition to New Deal and civil rights legislation.
- 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: Howard E. Smith Target entity description: Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on genre films such as the cult vampire movie "Near Dark."
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A.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed drama "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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B.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the thriller "Snakes on a Plane."
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C.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the shark thriller "Deep Blue Sea."
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D.
Howard E. Smith
Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the action thriller "Point Break."
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E.
Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith was a powerful mid-20th-century Virginia congressman and conservative Democrat known for his influential role on the House Rules Committee and his opposition to New Deal and civil rights legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film editor ⓘ |
| cultStatus | cult film ⓘ |
| edited | Near Dark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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vampire film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Near Dark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
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: Howard E. Smith Description of subject: Howard E. Smith is a film editor best known for his work on genre films such as the cult vampire movie "Near Dark."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.