David Myers
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David Myers was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including collaborations with directors like George Lucas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Myers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804283 — 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: David Myers Context triple: [THX 1138, cinematography, David Myers]
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow is an evolutionary anthropologist and psychologist known for his work on evolutionary psychology and human nature, including co-editing the influential volume "The Adapted Mind."
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D.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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E.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
- 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 Myers Target entity description: David Myers was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including collaborations with directors like George Lucas.
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow is an evolutionary anthropologist and psychologist known for his work on evolutionary psychology and human nature, including co-editing the influential volume "The Adapted Mind."
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D.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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E.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American cinema
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surface form:
United States film industry
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| artisticMovement |
New Hollywood
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surface form:
New Hollywood cinema
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| collaboratedWith |
George Lucas
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independent filmmakers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
counterculture-era films
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music-related films ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential films of the early 1970s
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influential films of the late 1960s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion pictures ⓘ |
| notability | known for collaborations with prominent directors ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod |
early 1970s
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late 1960s ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| style |
documentary-influenced camerawork
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naturalistic cinematography ⓘ |
| workedOn |
concert films
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documentary films ⓘ |
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: David Myers Description of subject: David Myers was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including collaborations with directors like George Lucas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.