Roger Spottiswoode
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Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Spottiswoode canonical | 30 |
| Roger Spottiswoode (film director) | 1 |
| Tony Scott | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200536 — 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: Roger Spottiswoode Context triple: [Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, director, Roger Spottiswoode]
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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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Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing and producing acclaimed films such as Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, as well as co-creating the television series Thirtysomething.
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Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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D.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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Phil Joanou
Phil Joanou is an American film and music video director best known for his collaborations with U2 and for directing feature films such as "State of Grace."
- 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: Roger Spottiswoode Target entity description: Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
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A.
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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B.
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing and producing acclaimed films such as Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, as well as co-creating the television series Thirtysomething.
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C.
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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D.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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E.
Phil Joanou
Phil Joanou is an American film and music video director best known for his collaborations with U2 and for directing feature films such as "State of Grace."
- 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: Roger Spottiswoode Description of subject: Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roger Spottiswoode
subject linked to:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
linked to: Roger Spottiswoode
subject linked to:
film "Air America"
subject linked to:
film "Air America"