Jacques Haitkin
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Jacques Haitkin is an American cinematographer best known for shooting the original horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques Haitkin canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485648 — 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: Jacques Haitkin Context triple: [A Nightmare on Elm Street, cinematographyBy, Jacques Haitkin]
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A.
Bernard Weil
Bernard Weil was the father of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, belonging to the Weil family of intellectuals in early 20th-century France.
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B.
René Leibowitz
René Leibowitz was a Polish-born French composer, conductor, and influential music theorist who helped introduce and promote twelve-tone and serial techniques in postwar France.
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C.
Maurice Schwartz
Maurice Schwartz was a prominent Yiddish stage and film actor, director, and founder of New York’s Yiddish Art Theatre, renowned for his influential contributions to Jewish cultural life in the early 20th century.
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D.
Paul Seydor
Paul Seydor is a film editor and scholar best known for his work on Sam Peckinpah’s films and his writings on American cinema.
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E.
René Blum
René Blum was a French theatrical producer and impresario best known for co-founding and directing the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in the early 20th century.
- 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: Jacques Haitkin Target entity description: Jacques Haitkin is an American cinematographer best known for shooting the original horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
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A.
Bernard Weil
Bernard Weil was the father of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, belonging to the Weil family of intellectuals in early 20th-century France.
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B.
René Leibowitz
René Leibowitz was a Polish-born French composer, conductor, and influential music theorist who helped introduce and promote twelve-tone and serial techniques in postwar France.
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C.
Maurice Schwartz
Maurice Schwartz was a prominent Yiddish stage and film actor, director, and founder of New York’s Yiddish Art Theatre, renowned for his influential contributions to Jewish cultural life in the early 20th century.
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D.
Paul Seydor
Paul Seydor is a film editor and scholar best known for his work on Sam Peckinpah’s films and his writings on American cinema.
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E.
René Blum
René Blum was a French theatrical producer and impresario best known for co-founding and directing the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ feature film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | A Nightmare on Elm Street ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWorkGenre | horror film ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | director of photography on A Nightmare on Elm Street ⓘ |
| workedOn | A Nightmare on Elm Street ⓘ |
| workedWith | Wes Craven ⓘ |
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: Jacques Haitkin Description of subject: Jacques Haitkin is an American cinematographer best known for shooting the original horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.