Tobias A. Schliessler
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Tobias A. Schliessler is a German-born cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Dreamgirls," "Friday Night Lights," and "Hancock."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobias A. Schliessler canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225924 — 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: Tobias A. Schliessler Context triple: [Dreamgirls, cinematographer, Tobias A. Schliessler]
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A.
David Schmaier
David Schmaier is a technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
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B.
Eric D. Schneider
Eric D. Schneider was a scientist and author known for his work on thermodynamics and complex systems, particularly in collaboration with Dorion Sagan.
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C.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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E.
Maximilian Scheffler
Maximilian Scheffler is a scientist known as a notable student and protégé of the German quantum chemist Joachim Sauer.
- 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: Tobias A. Schliessler Target entity description: Tobias A. Schliessler is a German-born cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Dreamgirls," "Friday Night Lights," and "Hancock."
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A.
David Schmaier
David Schmaier is a technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
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B.
Eric D. Schneider
Eric D. Schneider was a scientist and author known for his work on thermodynamics and complex systems, particularly in collaboration with Dorion Sagan.
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C.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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E.
Maximilian Scheffler
Maximilian Scheffler is a scientist known as a notable student and protégé of the German quantum chemist Joachim Sauer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
director of photography ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Germany ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
sports drama film ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Dreamgirls
ⓘ
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights
Hancock (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Hancock
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Dreamgirls
ⓘ
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights
Hancock (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Hancock
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| notableWorkType | Hollywood feature film ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
director of photography ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Dreamgirls
ⓘ
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights
Hancock (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Hancock
|
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: Tobias A. Schliessler Description of subject: Tobias A. Schliessler is a German-born cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films such as "Dreamgirls," "Friday Night Lights," and "Hancock."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mr. Holmes