Danny Cannon
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British person
film director
film producer
human
screenwriter
television director
television producer
Danny Cannon is a British film and television director, producer, and writer known for his work on genre projects such as the horror sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and for developing and directing episodes of series like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Gotham."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Cannon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1864653 — 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: Danny Cannon Context triple: [I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, director, Danny Cannon]
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A.
Tom Conway
Tom Conway was a British-American actor best known for taking over the role of The Falcon in the popular 1940s film series and for his work in film noir and horror movies.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
John Paul Lucas
John Paul Lucas is an American architect best known for co-designing the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
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E.
Mike Moore
Mike Moore was a New Zealand politician who briefly served as the country’s Prime Minister in 1990 and later became Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
- 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: Danny Cannon Target entity description: Danny Cannon is a British film and television director, producer, and writer known for his work on genre projects such as the horror sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and for developing and directing episodes of series like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Gotham."
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A.
Tom Conway
Tom Conway was a British-American actor best known for taking over the role of The Falcon in the popular 1940s film series and for his work in film noir and horror movies.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
John Paul Lucas
John Paul Lucas is an American architect best known for co-designing the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
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E.
Mike Moore
Mike Moore was a New Zealand politician who briefly served as the country’s Prime Minister in 1990 and later became Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developerOf |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
ⓘ
Gotham ⓘ |
| directorOf |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Gotham ⓘ I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| familyName | Cannon ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Danny ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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developing Gotham ⓘ developing television series ⓘ directing horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ directing television pilots ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Danny Cannon self-link ⓘ |
| notableGenre |
crime drama
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horror ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
ⓘ
Gotham ⓘ I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| producerOf |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
ⓘ
Gotham ⓘ |
| workFocus |
genre film
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genre television ⓘ |
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: Danny Cannon Description of subject: Danny Cannon is a British film and television director, producer, and writer known for his work on genre projects such as the horror sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and for developing and directing episodes of series like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Gotham."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.