Puttnam
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Puttnam is a surname most notably associated with British film producer and politician David Puttnam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puttnam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5494170 — 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: Puttnam Context triple: [David Puttnam, familyName, Puttnam]
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A.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
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B.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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C.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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D.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
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E.
Mompeo
Mompeo is a small Italian municipality in the Lazio region, known for its historic hilltop setting and scenic views within the Province of Rieti.
- 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: Puttnam Target entity description: Puttnam is a surname most notably associated with British film producer and politician David Puttnam.
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A.
Rennahan
Rennahan is a surname most notably associated with Ray Rennahan, an American cinematographer known for his pioneering work with Technicolor.
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B.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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C.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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D.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
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E.
Mompeo
Mompeo is a small Italian municipality in the Lazio region, known for its historic hilltop setting and scenic views within the Province of Rieti.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
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human ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ politician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Minchenden Grammar School ⓘ |
| familyName | Puttnam ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | David Puttnam ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Putnam ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Labour Party (UK) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chariots of Fire
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Local Hero ⓘ Midnight Express ⓘ The Killing Fields ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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film producer ⓘ politician ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
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: Puttnam Description of subject: Puttnam is a surname most notably associated with British film producer and politician David Puttnam.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Puttnam