Brian A. Kates
E1038622
Brian A. Kates is a film editor best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brian A. Kates canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465638 — 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: Brian A. Kates Context triple: [The Savages, editedBy, Brian A. Kates]
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A.
Stephen M. Kellen
Stephen M. Kellen was a prominent financier and philanthropist known for his leadership at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder and his significant support of cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Brian L. Hinman
Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
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C.
Michael A. Elliott
Michael A. Elliott is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Amherst College.
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D.
Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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E.
Daniel P. Livermore
Daniel P. Livermore was the husband of prominent American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Mary Livermore.
- 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: Brian A. Kates Target entity description: Brian A. Kates is a film editor best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films.
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A.
Stephen M. Kellen
Stephen M. Kellen was a prominent financier and philanthropist known for his leadership at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder and his significant support of cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Brian L. Hinman
Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
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C.
Michael A. Elliott
Michael A. Elliott is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Amherst College.
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D.
Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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E.
Daniel P. Livermore
Daniel P. Livermore was the husband of prominent American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Mary Livermore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film editor
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genre |
art-house film
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independent film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing art-house films
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editing independent films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Shadowboxer
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The Door in the Floor ⓘ The Laramie Project ⓘ The Messenger ⓘ The Savages ⓘ The Woodsman ⓘ |
| 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: Brian A. Kates Description of subject: Brian A. Kates is a film editor best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.