Frank Perry
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Frank Perry was an American film director and producer known for his psychologically incisive dramas and independent sensibility, including works like "David and Lisa" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Perry canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286739 — 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: Frank Perry Context triple: [David and Lisa, director, Frank Perry]
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A.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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B.
Donald Madden
Donald Madden was an American stage and screen actor best known for his work in classical theater and character roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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C.
Frank Lubey
Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
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D.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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E.
Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
- 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: Frank Perry Target entity description: Frank Perry was an American film director and producer known for his psychologically incisive dramas and independent sensibility, including works like "David and Lisa" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife."
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A.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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B.
Donald Madden
Donald Madden was an American stage and screen actor best known for his work in classical theater and character roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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C.
Frank Lubey
Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
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D.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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E.
Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
- 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: Frank Perry Description of subject: Frank Perry was an American film director and producer known for his psychologically incisive dramas and independent sensibility, including works like "David and Lisa" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.