James Marsh
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James Marsh is a British filmmaker best known for his acclaimed documentary and narrative features, including the Oscar-winning "Man on Wire" and the biographical drama "The Theory of Everything."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Marsh canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2982298 — 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: James Marsh Context triple: [Man on Wire, director, James Marsh]
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A.
William Oldroyd
William Oldroyd is a British film and theatre director best known for his critically acclaimed 2016 period drama film "Lady Macbeth."
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B.
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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C.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle is an acclaimed British film director and producer known for movies such as "Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "28 Days Later."
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D.
Max Minghella
Max Minghella is a British actor and filmmaker known for roles in films like "The Social Network" and the series "The Handmaid's Tale."
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E.
Oliver Parker
Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
- 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: James Marsh Target entity description: James Marsh is a British filmmaker best known for his acclaimed documentary and narrative features, including the Oscar-winning "Man on Wire" and the biographical drama "The Theory of Everything."
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A.
William Oldroyd
William Oldroyd is a British film and theatre director best known for his critically acclaimed 2016 period drama film "Lady Macbeth."
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B.
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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C.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle is an acclaimed British film director and producer known for movies such as "Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "28 Days Later."
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D.
Max Minghella
Max Minghella is a British actor and filmmaker known for roles in films like "The Social Network" and the series "The Handmaid's Tale."
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E.
Oliver Parker
Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: James Marsh Description of subject: James Marsh is a British filmmaker best known for his acclaimed documentary and narrative features, including the Oscar-winning "Man on Wire" and the biographical drama "The Theory of Everything."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Red Riding: 1980