David Slade
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David Slade is a British film and television director known for his work in horror and thriller genres, including films like "Hard Candy," "30 Days of Night," and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Slade canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351972 — 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 Slade Context triple: [30 Days of Night, director, David Slade]
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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C.
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer best known for commercial hits like the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand.
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D.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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E.
Glenn Ficarra
Glenn Ficarra is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for co-writing and directing films such as "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "I Love You Phillip Morris," often in collaboration with John Requa.
- 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 Slade Target entity description: David Slade is a British film and television director known for his work in horror and thriller genres, including films like "Hard Candy," "30 Days of Night," and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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C.
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer best known for commercial hits like the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand.
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D.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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E.
Glenn Ficarra
Glenn Ficarra is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for co-writing and directing films such as "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "I Love You Phillip Morris," often in collaboration with John Requa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
30 Days of Night
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Hard Candy ⓘ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ⓘ |
| director |
David Slade
self-linksurface differs
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David Slade self-linksurface differs ⓘ David Slade self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| familyName | Slade ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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horror film ⓘ psychological thriller film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing horror films
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directing thriller films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Slade self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableGenre |
horror
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thriller ⓘ |
| notableWork |
30 Days of Night
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Hard Candy ⓘ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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music video director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Twilight Saga film series ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workedOn |
film
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music videos ⓘ 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: David Slade Description of subject: David Slade is a British film and television director known for his work in horror and thriller genres, including films like "Hard Candy," "30 Days of Night," and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hard Candy
subject surface form:
30 Days of Night
subject surface form:
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse