Stephen Norrington
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Stephen Norrington is a British filmmaker and special effects artist best known for directing the influential 1998 superhero horror film "Blade."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Norrington canonical | 6 |
| Norrington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485905 — 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: Stephen Norrington Context triple: [Blade (1998 film), director, Stephen Norrington]
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Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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Sir Edward Hawke
Sir Edward Hawke was an 18th-century British admiral best known for his decisive naval victory over the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years' War.
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Admiral Edward Vernon
Admiral Edward Vernon was an 18th-century British naval officer whose military fame led George Washington’s family to name their Virginia estate, Mount Vernon, in his honor.
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Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot was a British Royal Navy officer of the 18th century best known for his command roles in the American Revolutionary War, particularly in major naval operations along the North American coast.
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Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen was an 18th-century British admiral renowned for his aggressive naval leadership during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Stephen Norrington Target entity description: Stephen Norrington is a British filmmaker and special effects artist best known for directing the influential 1998 superhero horror film "Blade."
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A.
Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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B.
Sir Edward Hawke
Sir Edward Hawke was an 18th-century British admiral best known for his decisive naval victory over the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Admiral Edward Vernon
Admiral Edward Vernon was an 18th-century British naval officer whose military fame led George Washington’s family to name their Virginia estate, Mount Vernon, in his honor.
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D.
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot was a British Royal Navy officer of the 18th century best known for his command roles in the American Revolutionary War, particularly in major naval operations along the North American coast.
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E.
Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen was an 18th-century British admiral renowned for his aggressive naval leadership during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Stephen Norrington Description of subject: Stephen Norrington is a British filmmaker and special effects artist best known for directing the influential 1998 superhero horror film "Blade."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.