Lem Dobbs
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Lem Dobbs is a British-American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Dark City," "The Limey," and "The Score."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lem Dobbs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4626202 — 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: Lem Dobbs Context triple: [The Score, screenwriter, Lem Dobbs]
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A.
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman is a British broadcaster, journalist, and author best known for his incisive interviewing style on BBC’s Newsnight and as the long-time host of the quiz show University Challenge.
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B.
Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster, and political commentator best known for presenting BBC current affairs programmes such as "The Andrew Marr Show."
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C.
Luke Harding
Luke Harding is a British journalist and author known for his investigative reporting on Russia, espionage, and international affairs, including works that inspired the film "The Fifth Estate."
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D.
Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris is a British political commentator, columnist, and former Conservative MP known for his incisive and often witty analysis of UK politics.
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E.
John Inverdale
John Inverdale is a British sports broadcaster and journalist best known for his long-running work presenting rugby, tennis, and other major sporting events on BBC and ITV.
- 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: Lem Dobbs Target entity description: Lem Dobbs is a British-American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Dark City," "The Limey," and "The Score."
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A.
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman is a British broadcaster, journalist, and author best known for his incisive interviewing style on BBC’s Newsnight and as the long-time host of the quiz show University Challenge.
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B.
Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster, and political commentator best known for presenting BBC current affairs programmes such as "The Andrew Marr Show."
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C.
Luke Harding
Luke Harding is a British journalist and author known for his investigative reporting on Russia, espionage, and international affairs, including works that inspired the film "The Fifth Estate."
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D.
Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris is a British political commentator, columnist, and former Conservative MP known for his incisive and often witty analysis of UK politics.
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E.
John Inverdale
John Inverdale is a British sports broadcaster and journalist best known for his long-running work presenting rugby, tennis, and other major sporting events on BBC and ITV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British-American person
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film screenwriter ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century cinema
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21st-century cinema ⓘ |
| birthName | Anton Lemuel Kitaj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alex Proyas
NERFINISHED
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David S. Goyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Ridley NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Soderbergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-12-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | Kitaj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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neo-noir film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Anton
NERFINISHED
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Lemuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Lem Dobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dark City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hider in the House NERFINISHED ⓘ Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ The Company You Keep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hard Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Limey NERFINISHED ⓘ The Score NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film historian
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent | R. B. Kitaj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Lem Dobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Dark City
NERFINISHED
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Hider in the House NERFINISHED ⓘ Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ The Company You Keep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hard Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Limey NERFINISHED ⓘ The Score NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lem Dobbs Description of subject: Lem Dobbs is a British-American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "Dark City," "The Limey," and "The Score."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.