Brad Silberling
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Brad Silberling is an American film and television director known for movies such as "City of Angels," "Casper," and "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brad Silberling canonical | 20 |
| Josh Schwartz | 1 |
| Warren Leight | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3009498 — 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: Brad Silberling Context triple: [City of Angels, director, Brad Silberling]
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A.
David Frankel
David Frankel is an American film and television director best known for helming popular works such as "The Devil Wears Prada" and episodes of "Sex and the City."
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B.
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-writing films like "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen" and co-creating the TV series "Billions."
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C.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
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D.
Larry Karaszewski
Larry Karaszewski is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing offbeat biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
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E.
James DeMonaco
James DeMonaco is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for creating and writing the dystopian horror franchise "The Purge."
- 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: Brad Silberling Target entity description: Brad Silberling is an American film and television director known for movies such as "City of Angels," "Casper," and "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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A.
David Frankel
David Frankel is an American film and television director best known for helming popular works such as "The Devil Wears Prada" and episodes of "Sex and the City."
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B.
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-writing films like "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen" and co-creating the TV series "Billions."
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C.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
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D.
Larry Karaszewski
Larry Karaszewski is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing offbeat biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
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E.
James DeMonaco
James DeMonaco is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for creating and writing the dystopian horror franchise "The Purge."
- 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: Brad Silberling Description of subject: Brad Silberling is an American film and television director known for movies such as "City of Angels," "Casper," and "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Brad Silberling