Glen MacPherson
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Glen MacPherson is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on action and genre films in both Hollywood and international productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glen MacPherson canonical | 14 |
| John McPherson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6463598 — 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: Glen MacPherson Context triple: [Romeo Must Die, cinematographyBy, Glen MacPherson]
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A.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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B.
Allan MacDougall
Allan MacDougall is a notable individual recognized for bearing the MacDougall surname.
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C.
Ewen Macdonald
Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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D.
Allan MacEachen
Allan MacEachen was a prominent Canadian Liberal politician and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in shaping Canada's domestic and foreign policy in the late 20th century.
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E.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
- 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: Glen MacPherson Target entity description: Glen MacPherson is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on action and genre films in both Hollywood and international productions.
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A.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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B.
Allan MacDougall
Allan MacDougall is a notable individual recognized for bearing the MacDougall surname.
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C.
Ewen Macdonald
Ewen Macdonald was a Presbyterian minister best known as the husband of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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D.
Allan MacEachen
Allan MacEachen was a prominent Canadian Liberal politician and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in shaping Canada's domestic and foreign policy in the late 20th century.
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E.
Bruce McCulloch
Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work on action films
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work on genre films ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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international film productions ⓘ |
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: Glen MacPherson Description of subject: Glen MacPherson is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on action and genre films in both Hollywood and international productions.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Glen MacPherson
subject linked to:
film "16 Blocks"
subject linked to:
Walking Tall
subject linked to:
Momentum