Mark L. Lester
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Mark L. Lester is an American film director and producer best known for his work on 1980s action and genre films, including the cult classic "Commando."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark L. Lester canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4440891 — 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: Mark L. Lester Context triple: [Commando, director, Mark L. Lester]
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A.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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B.
Mark Lerner
Mark Lerner is an American businessman best known as a principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team and the son of real estate magnate Ted Lerner.
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C.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
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D.
Leland Robinson
Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
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E.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 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: Mark L. Lester Target entity description: Mark L. Lester is an American film director and producer best known for his work on 1980s action and genre films, including the cult classic "Commando."
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A.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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B.
Mark Lerner
Mark Lerner is an American businessman best known as a principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team and the son of real estate magnate Ted Lerner.
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C.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
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D.
Leland Robinson
Leland Robinson is the son of influential music producer and Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson.
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E.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Armed and Dangerous
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Class of 1984 ⓘ Class of 1999 ⓘ Commando ⓘ Double Take ⓘ Extreme Justice ⓘ Firestarter ⓘ Night of the Running Man ⓘ Pterodactyl ⓘ Showdown in Little Tokyo ⓘ The Base ⓘ The Base 2 ⓘ |
| director | Mark L. Lester ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Alyssa Milano
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Arnold Schwarzenegger ⓘ Brandon Lee ⓘ Dolph Lundgren ⓘ Rae Dawn Chong ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mark L. Lester ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1980s action films
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cult action films ⓘ genre cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Armed and Dangerous
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Class of 1984 ⓘ Class of 1999 ⓘ Commando ⓘ Firestarter ⓘ Showdown in Little Tokyo ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| produced |
Class of 1984
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Class of 1999 ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
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: Mark L. Lester Description of subject: Mark L. Lester is an American film director and producer best known for his work on 1980s action and genre films, including the cult classic "Commando."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.