David Puttnam
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David Puttnam is a British film producer and politician best known for producing acclaimed films such as "Chariots of Fire" and "The Killing Fields."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Puttnam canonical | 9 |
| David Terence Puttnam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010168 — 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: David Puttnam Context triple: [BAFTA Fellowship, notableRecipient, David Puttnam]
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A.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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B.
Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz was an American film producer and former record company executive best known for producing acclaimed films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.
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C.
Thomas Grazer
Thomas Grazer is the son of acclaimed American film and television producer Brian Grazer.
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D.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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E.
Brian Grazer
Brian Grazer is an American film and television producer and co-founder of Imagine Entertainment, known for producing acclaimed movies and TV series such as A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, and Arrested Development.
- 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: David Puttnam Target entity description: David Puttnam is a British film producer and politician best known for producing acclaimed films such as "Chariots of Fire" and "The Killing Fields."
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A.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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B.
Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz was an American film producer and former record company executive best known for producing acclaimed films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.
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C.
Thomas Grazer
Thomas Grazer is the son of acclaimed American film and television producer Brian Grazer.
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D.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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E.
Brian Grazer
Brian Grazer is an American film and television producer and co-founder of Imagine Entertainment, known for producing acclaimed movies and TV series such as A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, and Arrested Development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Puttnam Description of subject: David Puttnam is a British film producer and politician best known for producing acclaimed films such as "Chariots of Fire" and "The Killing Fields."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Terence Puttnam