Broderick Johnson
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Broderick Johnson is an American film producer and co-founder of Alcon Entertainment, known for backing major Hollywood films such as "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli," and "Transcendence."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Broderick Johnson canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067963 — 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: Broderick Johnson Context triple: [Transcendence (2014 film), producer, Broderick Johnson]
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A.
Noble Johnson
Noble Johnson was an American character actor and pioneering African-American film producer known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in classic adventure and horror films.
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B.
Henry McDaniel
Henry McDaniel was the father of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel, known primarily in historical records for this parental connection.
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C.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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D.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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E.
Edward Burleson
Edward Burleson was a prominent Texian military and political leader of the Texas Revolution who later served as vice president of the Republic of Texas.
- 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: Broderick Johnson Target entity description: Broderick Johnson is an American film producer and co-founder of Alcon Entertainment, known for backing major Hollywood films such as "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli," and "Transcendence."
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A.
Noble Johnson
Noble Johnson was an American character actor and pioneering African-American film producer known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in classic adventure and horror films.
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B.
Henry McDaniel
Henry McDaniel was the father of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel, known primarily in historical records for this parental connection.
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C.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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D.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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E.
Edward Burleson
Edward Burleson was a prominent Texian military and political leader of the Texas Revolution who later served as vice president of the Republic of Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ film producer ⓘ film production company ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Alcon Entertainment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Alcon Entertainment ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | backing major Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Blind Side
ⓘ
The Book of Eli ⓘ Transcendence (2014 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Transcendence
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| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ |
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: Broderick Johnson Description of subject: Broderick Johnson is an American film producer and co-founder of Alcon Entertainment, known for backing major Hollywood films such as "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli," and "Transcendence."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.