Tom Kalin
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Tom Kalin is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his pioneering work in New Queer Cinema, particularly the influential films "Swoon" and "Savage Grace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Kalin canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13434872 — 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: Tom Kalin Context triple: [New Queer Cinema, hasNotableDirector, Tom Kalin]
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A.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
Tom Jeter
Tom Jeter is a fictional sketch-comedy performer and writer from the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
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C.
Greg DePaul
Greg DePaul is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "Bride Wars."
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D.
Bob Cmelik
Bob Cmelik is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
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E.
Charlie Kelmeckis
Charlie Kelmeckis is the introspective teenage protagonist and narrator of Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novel and film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
- 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: Tom Kalin Target entity description: Tom Kalin is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his pioneering work in New Queer Cinema, particularly the influential films "Swoon" and "Savage Grace."
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A.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
Tom Jeter
Tom Jeter is a fictional sketch-comedy performer and writer from the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
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C.
Greg DePaul
Greg DePaul is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "Bride Wars."
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D.
Bob Cmelik
Bob Cmelik is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
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E.
Charlie Kelmeckis
Charlie Kelmeckis is the introspective teenage protagonist and narrator of Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novel and film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| activeIn |
LGBT cinema
ⓘ
independent film scene ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Savage Grace
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Swoon ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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Whitney Museum Independent Study Program ⓘ
linked to:
Whitney Museum of American Art
|
| employer | Columbia University School of the Arts ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT-related film
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independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
independent LGBT cinema
ⓘ
queer filmmakers ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
experimental film
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feature film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Queer Cinema ⓘ |
| name | Tom Kalin ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering work in New Queer Cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Savage Grace
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Swoon ⓘ short films on AIDS and queer identity ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| participantIn |
New Queer Cinema movement
ⓘ
linked to:
New Queer Cinema
|
| screenwriterOf |
Savage Grace
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Swoon ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| subjectOf | interviews about New Queer Cinema ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
AIDS crisis
ⓘ
family dynamics ⓘ queer identity ⓘ true crime narratives ⓘ |
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: Tom Kalin Description of subject: Tom Kalin is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his pioneering work in New Queer Cinema, particularly the influential films "Swoon" and "Savage Grace."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.