Paul W. S. Anderson
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Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul W. S. Anderson canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4063862 — 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: Paul W. S. Anderson Context triple: [Event Horizon, director, Paul W. S. Anderson]
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A.
Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for helming big-budget action-adventure and fantasy films such as The Mummy series and Van Helsing.
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B.
Ken Biller
Ken Biller is a television writer, producer, and director best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Genius."
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C.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
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D.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos was a Greek-Italian film director known for helming action and genre films such as "Cobra," "Rambo: First Blood Part II," and "Tombstone."
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E.
Joel Silver
Joel Silver is a prominent American film producer known for high-octane action and genre-defining hits such as the "Lethal Weapon" and "The Matrix" franchises.
- 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: Paul W. S. Anderson Target entity description: Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
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A.
Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for helming big-budget action-adventure and fantasy films such as The Mummy series and Van Helsing.
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B.
Ken Biller
Ken Biller is a television writer, producer, and director best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Genius."
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C.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
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D.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos was a Greek-Italian film director known for helming action and genre films such as "Cobra," "Rambo: First Blood Part II," and "Tombstone."
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E.
Joel Silver
Joel Silver is a prominent American film producer known for high-octane action and genre-defining hits such as the "Lethal Weapon" and "The Matrix" franchises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-03-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Newcastle upon Tyne ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Alien vs. Predator
ⓘ
surface form:
Alien vs. Predator (2004 film)
Death Race (2008 film) ⓘ Event Horizon ⓘ
surface form:
Event Horizon (1997 film)
Monster Hunter (2020 film) ⓘ Mortal Kombat (1995 film) ⓘ Pompeii (2014 film) ⓘ Resident Evil (2002 film) ⓘ Resident Evil: Afterlife ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010 film)
Resident Evil: Retribution ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012 film)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016 film)
Soldier (1998 film) ⓘ The Three Musketeers (2011 film) ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Warwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Anderson ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul W. S. Anderson self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alien vs. Predator
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surface form:
Alien vs. Predator (2004 film)
Death Race (2008 film) ⓘ Event Horizon ⓘ
surface form:
Event Horizon (1997 film)
Monster Hunter (2020 film) ⓘ Mortal Kombat (1995 film) ⓘ Pompeii (2014 film) ⓘ Resident Evil (2002 film) ⓘ Resident Evil film series ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil (film series)
Resident Evil: Afterlife ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010 film)
Resident Evil: Retribution ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012 film)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016 film)
Soldier (1998 film) ⓘ The Three Musketeers (2011 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse |
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich
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surface form:
Milla Jovovich
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| wrote |
Monster Hunter (2020 film)
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Resident Evil (2002 film) ⓘ Resident Evil: Afterlife ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010 film)
Resident Evil: Retribution ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012 film)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016 film)
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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: Paul W. S. Anderson Description of subject: Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.