Jonas Åkerlund
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Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director known for his visually intense, fast-cut style in videos for major artists like Madonna, U2, and Lady Gaga.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonas Åkerlund canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1195005 — 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: Jonas Åkerlund Context triple: [Beautiful Day, musicVideoDirector, Jonas Åkerlund]
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A.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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B.
Robert Schwentke
Robert Schwentke is a German film director and screenwriter known for directing Hollywood thrillers and action films such as "Flightplan," "RED," and "The Time Traveler's Wife."
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C.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström is a Swedish film director known for character-driven dramas and adaptations such as "My Life as a Dog," "The Cider House Rules," and "Chocolat."
- 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: Jonas Åkerlund Target entity description: Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director known for his visually intense, fast-cut style in videos for major artists like Madonna, U2, and Lady Gaga.
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A.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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B.
Robert Schwentke
Robert Schwentke is a German film director and screenwriter known for directing Hollywood thrillers and action films such as "Flightplan," "RED," and "The Time Traveler's Wife."
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C.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström is a Swedish film director known for character-driven dramas and adaptations such as "My Life as a Dog," "The Cider House Rules," and "Chocolat."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Jonas Åkerlund Description of subject: Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director known for his visually intense, fast-cut style in videos for major artists like Madonna, U2, and Lady Gaga.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
You're the Best Thing About Me
subject surface form:
Magic (Coldplay song)
subject surface form:
Porcelain
subject surface form:
Beautiful
subject surface form:
We Are Golden