Sacha Guitry
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Sacha Guitry was a prominent French playwright, actor, and filmmaker known for his witty, sophisticated comedies and prolific output in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sacha Guitry canonical | 6 |
| Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry | 1 |
| Guitry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2213779 — 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: Sacha Guitry Context triple: [Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, hasNotableBurial, Sacha Guitry]
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A.
Jacques Demy
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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B.
René Clair
René Clair was a pioneering French filmmaker and screenwriter known for his innovative early sound films and poetic, whimsical style in classics like "Sous les toits de Paris" and "À nous la liberté."
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C.
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol was a renowned 20th-century French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker celebrated for his works set in Provence and his significant contributions to French literature and cinema.
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D.
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."
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E.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a renowned French film director and screenwriter, celebrated as one of the greatest auteurs in cinema history.
- 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: Sacha Guitry Target entity description: Sacha Guitry was a prominent French playwright, actor, and filmmaker known for his witty, sophisticated comedies and prolific output in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
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A.
Jacques Demy
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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B.
René Clair
René Clair was a pioneering French filmmaker and screenwriter known for his innovative early sound films and poetic, whimsical style in classics like "Sous les toits de Paris" and "À nous la liberté."
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C.
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol was a renowned 20th-century French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker celebrated for his works set in Provence and his significant contributions to French literature and cinema.
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D.
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."
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E.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a renowned French film director and screenwriter, celebrated as one of the greatest auteurs in cinema history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| birthName |
Sacha Guitry
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry
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| burialPlace | Cimetière de Montmartre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1885-02-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1957-07-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French people ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sacha Guitry
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Guitry
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| father | Lucien Guitry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexandre ⓘ |
| influenced | French comedy cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | French theatre of the early 20th century ⓘ |
| name | Sacha Guitry self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| nickname | Sacha ⓘ |
| notableFor |
sophisticated comedies
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witty dialogue ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneer of French talking pictures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ils étaient neuf célibataires
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La Poison ⓘ Le Comédien ⓘ Le Roman d’un tricheur ⓘ Louis Pasteur ⓘ
surface form:
Pasteur
Quadrille ⓘ Si Versailles m’était conté… ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ film director ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Russian Empire
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| placeOfDeath |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charlotte Lysès
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Geneviève de Séréville ⓘ Jacqueline Delubac ⓘ Lana Marconi ⓘ Yvonne Printemps ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
early 20th century
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interwar period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sacha Guitry Description of subject: Sacha Guitry was a prominent French playwright, actor, and filmmaker known for his witty, sophisticated comedies and prolific output in early 20th-century theatre and cinema.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cimetière des Batignolles
subject surface form:
Cible émouvante
this entity surface form:
Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry
this entity surface form:
Guitry