David Munro
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David Munro is a filmmaker best known for directing the documentary "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia," which exposed the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences.
All labels observed (1)
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| David Munro canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1521420 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Munro Context triple: [Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, director, David Munro]
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Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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B.
Jock MacKenzie
Jock MacKenzie was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1933 adventure-fantasy film "Son of Kong," the sequel to the original "King Kong."
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C.
John MacGregor
John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
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D.
Alexander Cameron
Alexander Cameron is a British barrister and King's Counsel, notable as the elder brother of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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E.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
- 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 Munro Target entity description: David Munro is a filmmaker best known for directing the documentary "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia," which exposed the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences.
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A.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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B.
Jock MacKenzie
Jock MacKenzie was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1933 adventure-fantasy film "Son of Kong," the sequel to the original "King Kong."
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C.
John MacGregor
John MacGregor is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts, including serving as a Cabinet minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
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D.
Alexander Cameron
Alexander Cameron is a British barrister and King's Counsel, notable as the elder brother of former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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E.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary film
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documentary filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| about |
aftermath of Cambodian genocide
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genocide in Cambodia ⓘ humanitarian crisis in Cambodia ⓘ impact of Khmer Rouge policies ⓘ international awareness of Cambodian crisis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | David Munro self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary film
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political documentary ⓘ war and conflict reporting in film ⓘ |
| genre |
political documentary
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war documentary ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Cambodia
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Khmer Rouge ⓘ aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime ⓘ |
| notableFor | exposing the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences through film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Munro Description of subject: David Munro is a filmmaker best known for directing the documentary "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia," which exposed the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia