Joseph Sargent
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Joseph Sargent was an American film and television director known for works such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and numerous acclaimed TV movies and series episodes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Sargent canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484723 — 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: Joseph Sargent Context triple: [The Corbomite Maneuver, director, Joseph Sargent]
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera work in early Hollywood, notably becoming the only write-in Academy Award winner for his cinematography.
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C.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
- 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: Joseph Sargent Target entity description: Joseph Sargent was an American film and television director known for works such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and numerous acclaimed TV movies and series episodes.
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera work in early Hollywood, notably becoming the only write-in Academy Award winner for his cinematography.
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C.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Joseph Sargent Description of subject: Joseph Sargent was an American film and television director known for works such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and numerous acclaimed TV movies and series episodes.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.