Brian Taylor
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Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Taylor canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2995527 — 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: Brian Taylor Context triple: [Crank: High Voltage, director, Brian Taylor]
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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B.
Jason Paul Taylor
Jason Paul Taylor is a former American football defensive end and linebacker best known for his standout NFL career primarily with the Miami Dolphins and his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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C.
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "Sideways" and "Election."
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D.
Eric M. Taylor
Eric M. Taylor was a notable figure significant enough in his community or field to have the Eric M. Taylor Center named in his honor.
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E.
Kevin Cossom
Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
- 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: Brian Taylor Target entity description: Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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B.
Jason Paul Taylor
Jason Paul Taylor is a former American football defensive end and linebacker best known for his standout NFL career primarily with the Miami Dolphins and his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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C.
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "Sideways" and "Election."
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D.
Eric M. Taylor
Eric M. Taylor was a notable figure significant enough in his community or field to have the Eric M. Taylor Center named in his honor.
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E.
Kevin Cossom
Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| coCreated | Happy! (TV series) ⓘ |
| coDirected |
Crank
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Crank: High Voltage ⓘ Gamer ⓘ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (music)
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| collaboratedWith | Mark Neveldine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developer | Brian Taylor ⓘ |
| directed | Mom and Dad ⓘ |
| director | Brian Taylor ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
action film
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black comedy ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fast-paced action sequences
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hyper-kinetic visual style ⓘ |
| memberOf | Neveldine/Taylor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crank
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Crank: High Voltage ⓘ Gamer ⓘ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ⓘ
linked to:
Ghost Rider (2007 film)
Happy! (TV series) ⓘ Mom and Dad ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Brian Taylor Description of subject: Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brian Taylor
subject linked to:
Brian Taylor
subject linked to:
Neveldine/Taylor directing duo
subject linked to:
Neveldine/Taylor directing duo
subject linked to:
Mark