Sean McElwee
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Sean McElwee is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Horse Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sean McElwee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2995637 — 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: Sean McElwee Context triple: [Horse Girl, cinematographyBy, Sean McElwee]
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A.
Waddy Butler Wood
Waddy Butler Wood was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs in Washington, D.C., including notable residential and public buildings.
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B.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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C.
Cullen Tate
Cullen Tate was a film assistant director recognized in early Hollywood, notably honored at the 7th Academy Awards.
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D.
Jack Dafoe
Jack Dafoe is the son of acclaimed American actor Willem Dafoe and has largely maintained a private life outside of the entertainment industry.
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E.
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
- 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: Sean McElwee Target entity description: Sean McElwee is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Horse Girl."
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A.
Waddy Butler Wood
Waddy Butler Wood was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs in Washington, D.C., including notable residential and public buildings.
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B.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
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C.
Cullen Tate
Cullen Tate was a film assistant director recognized in early Hollywood, notably honored at the 7th Academy Awards.
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D.
Jack Dafoe
Jack Dafoe is the son of acclaimed American actor Willem Dafoe and has largely maintained a private life outside of the entertainment industry.
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E.
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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person ⓘ |
| knownFor | Horse Girl ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | cinematographer on Horse Girl ⓘ |
| workedOn | Horse Girl ⓘ |
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: Sean McElwee Description of subject: Sean McElwee is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Horse Girl."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.