Elmer Clifton
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Elmer Clifton was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era into the mid-20th century, known for his work on low-budget and exploitation films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elmer Clifton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11638416 — 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: Elmer Clifton Context triple: [The Babylonian Story, featuresActor, Elmer Clifton]
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A.
Elmer Booth
Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
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B.
Elmer Winter
Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
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C.
Clyde Holbrook
Clyde Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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D.
Clarence Worley
Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
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E.
Melvin Hicks
Melvin Hicks is the employee whose discrimination claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, which clarified the burden-shifting framework in employment discrimination law.
- 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: Elmer Clifton Target entity description: Elmer Clifton was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era into the mid-20th century, known for his work on low-budget and exploitation films.
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A.
Elmer Booth
Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
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B.
Elmer Winter
Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
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C.
Clyde Holbrook
Clyde Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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D.
Clarence Worley
Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
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E.
Melvin Hicks
Melvin Hicks is the employee whose discrimination claim led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, which clarified the burden-shifting framework in employment discrimination law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm |
1910s
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1920s ⓘ 1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Elmer Clifton Forsyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| coDirectedWith | Ida Lupino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1890-03-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1949-10-15 ⓘ |
| directed |
Assassin of Youth (1937 film)
NERFINISHED
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Down to the Sea in Ships (1922 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gambling with Souls (1936 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Not Wanted (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Slaves in Bondage (1937 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flame of Youth (1917 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girl in Room 20 (1946 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Princess of Patches (1917 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wreck (1913 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedForStudio | Poverty Row studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
classical Hollywood cinema
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
silent film era ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploitation films
ⓘ
low-budget films ⓘ silent films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Assassin of Youth (1937 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Down to the Sea in Ships (1922 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Not Wanted (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Toronto
ⓘ
surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedAs | assistant director ⓘ |
| workedInGenre |
drama film
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exploitation film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Clara Bow
NERFINISHED
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Ida Lupino 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: Elmer Clifton Description of subject: Elmer Clifton was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era into the mid-20th century, known for his work on low-budget and exploitation films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.