Auto Focus
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Auto Focus is a 2002 biographical drama film directed by Paul Schrader that chronicles the troubled life and career of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Auto Focus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6043107 — 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: Auto Focus Context triple: [Paul Schrader, notableWork, Auto Focus]
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A.
Depth of Field
Depth of Field is a film and television production company co-founded by actor Tobey Maguire, known for producing a range of independent and studio-backed projects.
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Universal Focus
Universal Focus was a film production and distribution company that served as the specialty or art-house division of Universal Pictures before being succeeded by Focus Features.
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C.
DOF
DOF is the official government gazette of Mexico in which federal laws, decrees, regulations, and official notices are published.
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D.
DOF
DOF is the acronym for the California Department of Finance, the state agency responsible for preparing the governor’s budget and overseeing California’s financial and economic policies.
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E.
Aperture
Aperture was Apple’s professional photo editing and management application for macOS, aimed at photographers needing advanced workflow and image processing tools.
- 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: Auto Focus Target entity description: Auto Focus is a 2002 biographical drama film directed by Paul Schrader that chronicles the troubled life and career of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane.
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A.
Depth of Field
Depth of Field is a film and television production company co-founded by actor Tobey Maguire, known for producing a range of independent and studio-backed projects.
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B.
Universal Focus
Universal Focus was a film production and distribution company that served as the specialty or art-house division of Universal Pictures before being succeeded by Focus Features.
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C.
DOF
DOF is the official government gazette of Mexico in which federal laws, decrees, regulations, and official notices are published.
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D.
DOF
DOF is the acronym for the California Department of Finance, the state agency responsible for preparing the governor’s budget and overseeing California’s financial and economic policies.
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E.
Aperture
Aperture was Apple’s professional photo editing and management application for macOS, aimed at photographers needing advanced workflow and image processing tools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Bob Crane ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Fred Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Angelo Badalamenti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
Bob Crane’s involvement with home video pornography
ⓘ
Bob Crane’s murder investigation ⓘ production of television series Hogan’s Heroes ⓘ |
| director | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Kristina Boden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | career of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Greg Kinnear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kurt Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyle Kessler NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Bello NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael E. Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Leibman NERFINISHED ⓘ Willem Dafoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | R ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguageTitle | Auto Focus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
downfall of a celebrity
ⓘ
fame ⓘ sexual addiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Bob Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
career of Bob Crane
ⓘ
troubled life of Bob Crane ⓘ |
| portrays | Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysBy |
Bob Crane is portrayed by Greg Kinnear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Henry Carpenter is portrayed by Willem Dafoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Howard Braunstein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry Karaszewski NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 105 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Michael Gerbosi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Gerbosi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| title | Auto Focus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Auto Focus Description of subject: Auto Focus is a 2002 biographical drama film directed by Paul Schrader that chronicles the troubled life and career of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.