Irvin Kershner
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Irvin Kershner was an American film director best known for helming major genre films such as "The Empire Strikes Back" and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irvin Kershner canonical | 6 |
| Kershner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3321529 — 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: Irvin Kershner Context triple: [Never Say Never Again, director, Irvin Kershner]
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A.
Gary Kurtz
Gary Kurtz was an American film producer best known for his work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
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B.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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C.
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director known for acclaimed works such as "Das Boot," "In the Line of Fire," and "Air Force One."
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D.
Jon Avnet
Jon Avnet is an American film and television producer and director known for works such as "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Up Close & Personal," and "Boiler Room."
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E.
Jacob Kershner
Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
- 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: Irvin Kershner Target entity description: Irvin Kershner was an American film director best known for helming major genre films such as "The Empire Strikes Back" and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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A.
Gary Kurtz
Gary Kurtz was an American film producer best known for his work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
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B.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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C.
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director known for acclaimed works such as "Das Boot," "In the Line of Fire," and "Air Force One."
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D.
Jon Avnet
Jon Avnet is an American film and television producer and director known for works such as "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Up Close & Personal," and "Boiler Room."
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E.
Jacob Kershner
Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Irvin Kershner Description of subject: Irvin Kershner was an American film director best known for helming major genre films such as "The Empire Strikes Back" and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kershner