Jacques Demy

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French New Wave filmmaker film director film editor human screenwriter

Jacques Demy was a French filmmaker associated with the French New Wave, best known for his colorful, musically driven films like "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Girls of Rochefort."

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Label	Occurrences
Jacques Demy canonical	12
Place Jacques-Demy	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172593 — 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: Jacques Demy
Context triple: [French New Wave, hasKeyFigure, Jacques Demy]

A. Matthew Libatique
Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky on films such as "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan."
B. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director known for visually ambitious, historically themed works such as "The Name of the Rose," "The Bear," and "Seven Years in Tibet."
C. Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau was a renowned French stage and film director, producer, and actor known for his innovative opera productions and influential European cinema work.
D. François Truffaut
François Truffaut was a pioneering French New Wave filmmaker and critic known for his innovative, deeply personal films such as "The 400 Blows" and his influential writings on cinema.
E. Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a pioneering French New Wave film director and screenwriter known for his psychologically complex, Hitchcockian thrillers that dissected bourgeois society.
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: Jacques Demy
Target entity description: Jacques Demy was a French filmmaker associated with the French New Wave, best known for his colorful, musically driven films like "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Girls of Rochefort."

A. Matthew Libatique
Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky on films such as "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan."
B. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director known for visually ambitious, historically themed works such as "The Name of the Rose," "The Bear," and "Seven Years in Tibet."
C. Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau was a renowned French stage and film director, producer, and actor known for his innovative opera productions and influential European cinema work.
D. François Truffaut
François Truffaut was a pioneering French New Wave filmmaker and critic known for his innovative, deeply personal films such as "The 400 Blows" and his influential writings on cinema.
E. Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a pioneering French New Wave film director and screenwriter known for his psychologically complex, Hitchcockian thrillers that dissected bourgeois society.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French New Wave filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ film editor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ
awardReceived	Cannes Jury Prize ⓘ surface form: Palme d'Or (Jury Prize) at Cannes Film Festival
causeOfDeath	AIDS-related complications ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Anouk Aimée ⓘ Catherine Deneuve ⓘ Danielle Darrieux ⓘ Françoise Dorléac ⓘ Michel Legrand ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1931-06-05 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1990-10-27 ⓘ
educatedAt	École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes ⓘ
familyName	Demy ⓘ
genre	fantasy film ⓘ musical film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ
givenName	Jacques ⓘ
hasSignatureStyle	integration of music and song into narrative ⓘ melancholic themes beneath a cheerful surface ⓘ use of bright, saturated colors ⓘ
influencedBy	Max Ophüls ⓘ classical Hollywood musicals ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
movement	French New Wave ⓘ
name	Jacques Demy self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Bay of Angels ⓘ The Wild Ass's Skin ⓘ surface form: Donkey Skin Lady Oscar ⓘ Lola ⓘ Model Shop ⓘ Parking ⓘ The Pied Piper ⓘ The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ⓘ The Young Girls of Rochefort ⓘ Une chambre en ville ⓘ
occupation	film director ⓘ film editor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Pontchâteau, France ⓘ surface form: Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
relative	Mathieu Demy ⓘ
spouse	Agnès Varda ⓘ
workLocation	Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States Nantes ⓘ surface form: Nantes, France Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

French New Wave → hasKeyFigure → Jacques Demy ⓘ

Corinne Marchand → workedWith → Jacques Demy ⓘ

Mouton-Duvernet → hasEntrance → Jacques Demy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Place Jacques-Demy

Agnès Varda → spouse → Jacques Demy ⓘ

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg → director → Jacques Demy ⓘ

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg → writer → Jacques Demy ⓘ

Jacques Demy → name → Jacques Demy self-link ⓘ

Catherine Deneuve → workedWith → Jacques Demy ⓘ

Michel Legrand → workedWith → Jacques Demy ⓘ

Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris (grave later lost) → burialPlaceOf → Jacques Demy ⓘ

subject surface form: Montparnasse Cemetery

Anouk Aimée → workedWith → Jacques Demy ⓘ

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967 film) → director → Jacques Demy ⓘ

subject surface form: The Young Girls of Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967 film) → writer → Jacques Demy ⓘ