Billy Corben
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Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Corben canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12804414 — 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: Billy Corben Context triple: [Limelight, director, Billy Corben]
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A.
Karel Shook
Karel Shook was an influential American ballet teacher and choreographer best known as the co-founder and principal teacher of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, where he helped train generations of Black classical dancers.
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B.
Robert Slaughter
Robert Slaughter was the husband of longtime U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter.
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C.
Billy Talbot
Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
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D.
Dave Cravens
Dave Cravens is a video game industry professional known for his work at the development studio High Moon Studios.
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E.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
- 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: Billy Corben Target entity description: Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
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A.
Karel Shook
Karel Shook was an influential American ballet teacher and choreographer best known as the co-founder and principal teacher of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, where he helped train generations of Black classical dancers.
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B.
Robert Slaughter
Robert Slaughter was the husband of longtime U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter.
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C.
Billy Talbot
Billy Talbot is an American bassist best known as a founding member of Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse.
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D.
Dave Cravens
Dave Cravens is a video game industry professional known for his work at the development studio High Moon Studios.
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E.
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz and soul-influenced singer, saxophonist, and songwriter known for his early 1990s pop hits and later critically acclaimed jazz recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Rakontur
NERFINISHED
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Rakontur documentary production company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
537 Votes
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Broke NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocaine Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' with the Godmother NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ Dawg Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ Raw Deal: A Question of Consent NERFINISHED ⓘ Screwball NERFINISHED ⓘ The U NERFINISHED ⓘ The U Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Rakontur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary film
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film production ⓘ |
| founded | Rakontur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
pop culture documentary
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true crime documentary ⓘ |
| givenName | Billy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreInWorks |
crime documentary
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political documentary ⓘ sports documentary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Billy Corben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pop-culture documentaries
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true-crime documentaries ⓘ |
| notableWork |
537 Votes
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Broke NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocaine Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ Dawg Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ Screwball NERFINISHED ⓘ The U NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| partnerInBusinessWith | Alfred Spellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Billy Corben Description of subject: Billy Corben is an American documentary filmmaker best known for co-founding Rakontur and directing pop-culture and true-crime documentaries such as "Cocaine Cowboys."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Limelight