Cory Finley
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Cory Finley is an American filmmaker and playwright best known for his darkly comedic and psychologically driven films such as "Thoroughbreds" and "Bad Education."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cory Finley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13119178 — 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: Cory Finley Context triple: [Thoroughbreds, director, Cory Finley]
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A.
Corey McCormick
Corey McCormick is an American bassist best known for his work with Neil Young and the rock band Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.
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B.
Michael Farris
Michael Farris is an American lawyer and conservative activist best known for his leadership in the Christian homeschooling movement and his role in founding and guiding Patrick Henry College.
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C.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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D.
Michael Harris
Michael Harris is a quirky, fast-talking yuppie character from the TV sitcom "Newhart," known for his neurotic personality and comedic relationship with Stephanie Vanderkellen.
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E.
Mike Papantonio
Mike Papantonio is an American trial lawyer, radio talk show host, and political commentator known for his progressive advocacy and high-profile litigation against major corporations.
- 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: Cory Finley Target entity description: Cory Finley is an American filmmaker and playwright best known for his darkly comedic and psychologically driven films such as "Thoroughbreds" and "Bad Education."
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A.
Corey McCormick
Corey McCormick is an American bassist best known for his work with Neil Young and the rock band Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.
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B.
Michael Farris
Michael Farris is an American lawyer and conservative activist best known for his leadership in the Christian homeschooling movement and his role in founding and guiding Patrick Henry College.
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C.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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D.
Michael Harris
Michael Harris is a quirky, fast-talking yuppie character from the TV sitcom "Newhart," known for his neurotic personality and comedic relationship with Stephanie Vanderkellen.
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E.
Mike Papantonio
Mike Papantonio is an American trial lawyer, radio talk show host, and political commentator known for his progressive advocacy and high-profile litigation against major corporations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| almaMater | Washington University in St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Landscape with Invisible Hand (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| director |
Cory Finley
NERFINISHED
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Cory Finley NERFINISHED ⓘ Cory Finley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Washington University in St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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dark comedy ⓘ drama film ⓘ psychological drama ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
film
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stage ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
school corruption scandal
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teenage friendship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comedic films
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psychologically driven narratives ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Education
NERFINISHED
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Landscape with Invisible Hand NERFINISHED ⓘ Thoroughbreds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Cory Finley
NERFINISHED
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Cory Finley NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Makowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| wrotePlay |
The Feast
NERFINISHED
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The Private Sector 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: Cory Finley Description of subject: Cory Finley is an American filmmaker and playwright best known for his darkly comedic and psychologically driven films such as "Thoroughbreds" and "Bad Education."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.