Mark Kasdan
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Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Western film "Silverado."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Kasdan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5201179 — 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: Mark Kasdan Context triple: [Silverado, writer, Mark Kasdan]
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A.
Jake Kasdan
Jake Kasdan is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and "Bad Teacher."
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B.
Jonathan Kasdan
Jonathan Kasdan is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing the Star Wars film "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and for being the son of filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.
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C.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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D.
David Koepp
David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing major Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
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E.
Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for helming the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi."
- 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: Mark Kasdan Target entity description: Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Western film "Silverado."
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A.
Jake Kasdan
Jake Kasdan is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and "Bad Teacher."
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B.
Jonathan Kasdan
Jonathan Kasdan is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing the Star Wars film "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and for being the son of filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.
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C.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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D.
David Koepp
David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing major Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
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E.
Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for helming the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | Silverado ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Silverado ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mark Kasdan ⓘ |
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: Mark Kasdan Description of subject: Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1985 Western film "Silverado."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mark Kasdan