Karel Reisz
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Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and key figure of the British New Wave, best known for directing influential realist dramas such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
All labels observed (1)
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| Karel Reisz canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5071983 — 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: Karel Reisz Context triple: [British New Wave, notableDirector, Karel Reisz]
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A.
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director renowned for classic Hollywood dramas such as "High Noon," "From Here to Eternity," and "A Man for All Seasons."
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B.
Tim Zinnemann
Tim Zinnemann is an American film producer and assistant director, known for his work on movies such as "The Running Man" and "Clear and Present Danger."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey was an American-born film director known for his stylistically distinctive and psychologically complex works, particularly in European cinema after his move to the United Kingdom.
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E.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff is an acclaimed German film director and screenwriter, known for his influential adaptations of literary works and for winning the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for "The Tin Drum."
- 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: Karel Reisz Target entity description: Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and key figure of the British New Wave, best known for directing influential realist dramas such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
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A.
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director renowned for classic Hollywood dramas such as "High Noon," "From Here to Eternity," and "A Man for All Seasons."
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B.
Tim Zinnemann
Tim Zinnemann is an American film producer and assistant director, known for his work on movies such as "The Running Man" and "Clear and Present Danger."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey was an American-born film director known for his stylistically distinctive and psychologically complex works, particularly in European cinema after his move to the United Kingdom.
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E.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff is an acclaimed German film director and screenwriter, known for his influential adaptations of literary works and for winning the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for "The Tin Drum."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British New Wave filmmaker
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Czech-born British person ⓘ film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BAFTA Award for Best British Film (for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coFounded | Free Cinema movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-07-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-11-25 ⓘ |
| directed |
Isadora
NERFINISHED
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Must Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ The French Lieutenant’s Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ Who’ll Stop the Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| edited | Sequence (film journal) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cambridge University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| influenced | British social realist filmmaking ⓘ |
| knownFor |
British New Wave cinema
NERFINISHED
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realist drama films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| movement | British New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
NERFINISHED
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Night Must Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ The French Lieutenant’s Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Who’ll Stop the Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| originalNationality | Czechoslovak ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ostrava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| spouse | Betsy Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | social realism ⓘ |
| wasRefugeeFrom | Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| workedIn | British film industry ⓘ |
| wrote | The Technique of Film Editing 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: Karel Reisz Description of subject: Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and key figure of the British New Wave, best known for directing influential realist dramas such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.