Jan de Bont
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Jan de Bont is a Dutch cinematographer and film director best known for shooting visually dynamic action films and directing hits like Speed and Twister.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan de Bont canonical | 30 |
| de Bont | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056329 — 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: Jan de Bont Context triple: [Ruthless People, cinematographyBy, Jan de Bont]
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A.
Randal Kleiser
Randal Kleiser is an American film director best known for directing the hit musical "Grease" (1978) and other popular films of the late 20th century.
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B.
Marcus Reiner
Marcus Reiner was an influential engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to rheology, the study of the flow and deformation of matter.
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C.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
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D.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is a New Zealand-born film director known for helming a range of high-profile thrillers and dramas in Hollywood, including titles like "No Way Out," "Thirteen Days," and "The World's Fastest Indian."
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E.
Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
- 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: Jan de Bont Target entity description: Jan de Bont is a Dutch cinematographer and film director best known for shooting visually dynamic action films and directing hits like Speed and Twister.
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A.
Randal Kleiser
Randal Kleiser is an American film director best known for directing the hit musical "Grease" (1978) and other popular films of the late 20th century.
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B.
Marcus Reiner
Marcus Reiner was an influential engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to rheology, the study of the flow and deformation of matter.
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C.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
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D.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is a New Zealand-born film director known for helming a range of high-profile thrillers and dramas in Hollywood, including titles like "No Way Out," "Thirteen Days," and "The World's Fastest Indian."
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E.
Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Jan de Bont Description of subject: Jan de Bont is a Dutch cinematographer and film director best known for shooting visually dynamic action films and directing hits like Speed and Twister.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Die Hard (1988 film)
linked to: Jan de Bont
subject linked to:
Tomb Raider film series
subject linked to:
Tomb Raider
subject linked to:
The Haunting