Gregory Widen
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Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and director best known for creating the film "Highlander" and writing the screenplay for the firefighter drama "Backdraft."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gregory Widen canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577875 — 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: Gregory Widen Context triple: [Backdraft, screenwriter, Gregory Widen]
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
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C.
Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who served as a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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D.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 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: Gregory Widen Target entity description: Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and director best known for creating the film "Highlander" and writing the screenplay for the firefighter drama "Backdraft."
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
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C.
Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who served as a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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D.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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film directing ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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action film ⓘ drama film ⓘ drama film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | firefighters ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the story for the film Highlander
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writing the screenplay for Backdraft ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Backdraft
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Highlander ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gregory Widen
self-linksurface differs
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Gregory Widen self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Gregory Widen Description of subject: Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and director best known for creating the film "Highlander" and writing the screenplay for the firefighter drama "Backdraft."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Highlander
subject surface form:
Backdraft