Philip Kaufman
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Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Right Stuff," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Kaufman canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804409 — 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: Philip Kaufman Context triple: [Raiders of the Lost Ark, storyBy, Philip Kaufman]
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Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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B.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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C.
Milos Forman
Milos Forman was an acclaimed Czech-American film director best known for classics such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus."
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D.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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E.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Philip Kaufman Target entity description: Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Right Stuff," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
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A.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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B.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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C.
Milos Forman
Milos Forman was an acclaimed Czech-American film director best known for classics such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus."
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D.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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E.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Philip Kaufman Description of subject: Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Right Stuff," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
subject surface form:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)