Robert Paynter
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Robert Paynter was a British cinematographer known for his work on major films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with directors like Richard Lester and John Landis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Paynter canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232404 — 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: Robert Paynter Context triple: [Superman III, cinematographyBy, Robert Paynter]
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A.
Richard Pryce
Richard Pryce was a British novelist and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his socially observant fiction and contributions to Victorian and Edwardian literature.
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B.
Colum Eastwood
Colum Eastwood is a Northern Irish politician who has served as leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and as a Member of Parliament for Foyle.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
- 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: Robert Paynter Target entity description: Robert Paynter was a British cinematographer known for his work on major films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with directors like Richard Lester and John Landis.
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A.
Richard Pryce
Richard Pryce was a British novelist and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his socially observant fiction and contributions to Victorian and Edwardian literature.
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B.
Colum Eastwood
Colum Eastwood is a Northern Irish politician who has served as leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and as a Member of Parliament for Foyle.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Robert Paynter Description of subject: Robert Paynter was a British cinematographer known for his work on major films of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in collaboration with directors like Richard Lester and John Landis.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Cantharus Productions
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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984 film)
subject linked to:
Blind Date