Douglas Trumbull
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Douglas Trumbull was a pioneering visual effects artist and filmmaker renowned for his groundbreaking work on science fiction films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Blade Runner."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Trumbull canonical | 18 |
| Donald Trumbull | 1 |
| Douglas Huntley Trumbull | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2791790 — 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: Douglas Trumbull Context triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, visualEffectsSupervisor, Douglas Trumbull]
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A.
Dennis Muren
Dennis Muren is a pioneering visual effects artist and supervisor, best known for his groundbreaking work on films like Star Wars, E.T., and Jurassic Park, and for holding a record number of Oscars in visual effects.
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B.
John Dykstra
John Dykstra is a pioneering visual effects artist and supervisor renowned for his groundbreaking work on films like "Star Wars" and "Spider-Man," which helped revolutionize modern cinematic special effects.
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C.
Leslie Kroitor
Leslie Kroitor is a child of Canadian filmmaker and IMAX co-founder Roman Kroitor.
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D.
Walter Murch
Walter Murch is an acclaimed American film editor and sound designer known for his innovative work on films such as Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and The English Patient.
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E.
John Knoll
John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor and software developer best known as the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop and a longtime leader at Industrial Light & Magic.
- 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: Douglas Trumbull Target entity description: Douglas Trumbull was a pioneering visual effects artist and filmmaker renowned for his groundbreaking work on science fiction films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Blade Runner."
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A.
Dennis Muren
Dennis Muren is a pioneering visual effects artist and supervisor, best known for his groundbreaking work on films like Star Wars, E.T., and Jurassic Park, and for holding a record number of Oscars in visual effects.
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B.
John Dykstra
John Dykstra is a pioneering visual effects artist and supervisor renowned for his groundbreaking work on films like "Star Wars" and "Spider-Man," which helped revolutionize modern cinematic special effects.
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C.
Leslie Kroitor
Leslie Kroitor is a child of Canadian filmmaker and IMAX co-founder Roman Kroitor.
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D.
Walter Murch
Walter Murch is an acclaimed American film editor and sound designer known for his innovative work on films such as Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and The English Patient.
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E.
John Knoll
John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor and software developer best known as the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop and a longtime leader at Industrial Light & Magic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
filmmaker
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person ⓘ visual effects artist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Awards for technical achievement
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surface form:
Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement
Honorary Academy Award ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Honorary Award
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| collaboratedWith |
Ridley Scott
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Stanley Kubrick ⓘ Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-04-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-02-07 ⓘ |
| developed |
Showscan
ⓘ
high-frame-rate cinema processes ⓘ |
| directed |
Brainstorm
ⓘ
Silent Running ⓘ |
| familyName | Trumbull ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema technology
ⓘ
visual effects ⓘ |
| fullName |
Douglas Trumbull
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Douglas Huntley Trumbull
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| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern visual effects industry
ⓘ
science fiction cinema ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative special photographic effects
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large-format film technologies ⓘ pioneering visual effects in science fiction films ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ⓘ |
| notableTechnique | slit-scan photography ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2001: A Space Odyssey
ⓘ
Blade Runner ⓘ Brainstorm ⓘ Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Silent Running ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ inventor ⓘ visual effects supervisor ⓘ |
| parent |
Douglas Trumbull
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Donald Trumbull
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| placeOfBirth |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Albany
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surface form:
Albany, New York, United States
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| residence |
Massachusetts
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surface form:
Massachusetts, United States
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| workedOn |
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Blade Runner ⓘ Brainstorm ⓘ Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Silent Running ⓘ |
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: Douglas Trumbull Description of subject: Douglas Trumbull was a pioneering visual effects artist and filmmaker renowned for his groundbreaking work on science fiction films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Blade Runner."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
this entity surface form:
Douglas Huntley Trumbull
this entity surface form:
Donald Trumbull
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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