Harris Savides
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Harris Savides was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his atmospheric, minimalist visual style in films such as "American Gangster," "Zodiac," and "Elephant."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harris Savides canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523997 — 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: Harris Savides Context triple: [American Gangster, cinematographer, Harris Savides]
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Ira Hirschmann
Ira Hirschmann was an American businessman and diplomat best known for his World War II efforts to rescue Jews from the Holocaust and his later work in international affairs.
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B.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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C.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
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D.
Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner was a pioneering Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the influential VC firm Kleiner Perkins.
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E.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
- 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: Harris Savides Target entity description: Harris Savides was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his atmospheric, minimalist visual style in films such as "American Gangster," "Zodiac," and "Elephant."
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A.
Ira Hirschmann
Ira Hirschmann was an American businessman and diplomat best known for his World War II efforts to rescue Jews from the Holocaust and his later work in international affairs.
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B.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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C.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
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D.
Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner was a pioneering Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the influential VC firm Kleiner Perkins.
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E.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Harris Savides Description of subject: Harris Savides was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his atmospheric, minimalist visual style in films such as "American Gangster," "Zodiac," and "Elephant."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elephant (2003 film)