John Maybury
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John Maybury is a British film director known for his visually distinctive and psychologically intense works, including the war drama "The Edge of Love" and the biographical film "Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Maybury canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4626247 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Maybury Context triple: [The Jacket, director, John Maybury]
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A.
John F. Dryden
John F. Dryden was an American businessman and politician who pioneered industrial life insurance in the United States and served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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B.
Charles Maclay
Charles Maclay was a 19th-century American politician, land developer, and founder of the city of San Fernando in California.
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C.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
James Rush
James Rush is the child of Australian actress Jane Menelaus and is primarily known in relation to his parents’ public profiles.
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E.
James Church
James Church is the pseudonym of a former Western intelligence officer known for his critically acclaimed Inspector O series of detective novels set in North Korea.
- 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: John Maybury Target entity description: John Maybury is a British film director known for his visually distinctive and psychologically intense works, including the war drama "The Edge of Love" and the biographical film "Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon."
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A.
John F. Dryden
John F. Dryden was an American businessman and politician who pioneered industrial life insurance in the United States and served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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B.
Charles Maclay
Charles Maclay was a 19th-century American politician, land developer, and founder of the city of San Fernando in California.
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C.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
James Rush
James Rush is the child of Australian actress Jane Menelaus and is primarily known in relation to his parents’ public profiles.
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E.
James Church
James Church is the pseudonym of a former Western intelligence officer known for his critically acclaimed Inspector O series of detective novels set in North Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
NERFINISHED
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Man to Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Edge of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | John Maybury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ psychological film ⓘ war drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Dylan Thomas
NERFINISHED
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Francis Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
psychologically intense narratives
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visually distinctive style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
NERFINISHED
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Man to Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Edge of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
articles on contemporary British cinema
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interviews about Francis Bacon ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: John Maybury Description of subject: John Maybury is a British film director known for his visually distinctive and psychologically intense works, including the war drama "The Edge of Love" and the biographical film "Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.