Don Taylor
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Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Taylor canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4709171 — 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)
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Target entity: Don Taylor Context triple: [Stalag 17, castMember, Don Taylor]
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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C.
Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman and politician best known as the longtime owner of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
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D.
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "Sideways" and "Election."
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E.
Michael Fottrell
Michael Fottrell is a film producer best known for his work on major action franchises, including entries in the Fast & Furious series.
- 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: Don Taylor Target entity description: Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
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A.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is known as the former long-term partner of acclaimed British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
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B.
Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing the hyper-kinetic action films "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage."
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C.
Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman and politician best known as the longtime owner of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
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D.
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne on acclaimed films such as "Sideways" and "Election."
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E.
Michael Fottrell
Michael Fottrell is a film producer best known for his work on major action franchises, including entries in the Fast & Furious series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Battleground (1949 film)
NERFINISHED
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Father of the Bride (1950 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Flying Leathernecks NERFINISHED ⓘ I’ll Cry Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalag 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Damien: Omen II
NERFINISHED
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes NERFINISHED ⓘ Omen II: Damien NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final Countdown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| name | Don Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing science fiction and horror films
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roles in classic American films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Battleground (1949 film)
NERFINISHED
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Damien: Omen II NERFINISHED ⓘ Escape from the Planet of the Apes NERFINISHED ⓘ Father of the Bride (1950 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Flying Leathernecks NERFINISHED ⓘ I’ll Cry Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalag 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final Countdown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Don Taylor Description of subject: Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Father of the Bride (1950 film)