Sean S. Cunningham
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Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean S. Cunningham canonical | 3 |
| Sean S. Cunningham Films | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5292726 — 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: Sean S. Cunningham Context triple: [A Stranger Is Watching (film), director, Sean S. Cunningham]
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Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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B.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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D.
Stephen M. Kellen
Stephen M. Kellen was a prominent financier and philanthropist known for his leadership at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder and his significant support of cultural and educational institutions.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- 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: Sean S. Cunningham Target entity description: Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
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A.
Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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B.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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D.
Stephen M. Kellen
Stephen M. Kellen was a prominent financier and philanthropist known for his leadership at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder and his significant support of cultural and educational institutions.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | American independent cinema ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | Friday the 13th franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Sean S. Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-12-31 ⓘ |
| directed |
A Stranger Is Watching
NERFINISHED
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DeepStar Six NERFINISHED ⓘ Friday the 13th NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last House on the Left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Sean S. Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Crystal Lake Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | slasher film ⓘ |
| name | Sean S. Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing the summer-camp slasher formula ⓘ |
| notableWork | Friday the 13th NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| produced |
Freddy vs. Jason
NERFINISHED
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Friday the 13th NERFINISHED ⓘ House NERFINISHED ⓘ House II: The Second Story NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason X NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last House on the Left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Sean S. Cunningham Description of subject: Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
A Stranger Is Watching (film)
this entity surface form:
Sean S. Cunningham Films