Tommy Lee Wallace
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Tommy Lee Wallace is an American filmmaker best known for his work as an editor, writer, and director on horror projects, including collaborations with John Carpenter and directing the 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Lee Wallace canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7516813 — 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: Tommy Lee Wallace Context triple: [The Fog, editor, Tommy Lee Wallace]
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A.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
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B.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
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C.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
Tony Moore
Tony Moore is an American comic book artist best known as the original co-creator and illustrator of the hit series "The Walking Dead."
- 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: Tommy Lee Wallace Target entity description: Tommy Lee Wallace is an American filmmaker best known for his work as an editor, writer, and director on horror projects, including collaborations with John Carpenter and directing the 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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A.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
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B.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
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C.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
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D.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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E.
Tony Moore
Tony Moore is an American comic book artist best known as the original co-creator and illustrator of the hit series "The Walking Dead."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film editor ⓘ human ⓘ production designer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | John Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-10-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ohio University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Tommy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with John Carpenter
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directing Halloween III: Season of the Witch ⓘ directing the 1990 television miniseries It ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tommy Lee Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGenre |
slasher film
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supernatural horror ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fright Night Part 2
NERFINISHED
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ It (1990 miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fog NERFINISHED ⓘ Vampires: Los Muertos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ production designer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
Dark Star (1974 film) – art director
NERFINISHED
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Fright Night Part 2 – director ⓘ Halloween (1978 film) – film editor ⓘ Halloween (1978 film) – production designer ⓘ Halloween III: Season of the Witch – director ⓘ Halloween III: Season of the Witch – writer ⓘ It (1990 miniseries) – director ⓘ The Fog (1980 film) – co-writer ⓘ The Fog (1980 film) – production designer ⓘ Vampires: Los Muertos – director ⓘ |
| spouse | Nancy Kyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Dark Star (1974 film)
NERFINISHED
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Halloween (1978 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fog (1980 film) 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: Tommy Lee Wallace Description of subject: Tommy Lee Wallace is an American filmmaker best known for his work as an editor, writer, and director on horror projects, including collaborations with John Carpenter and directing the 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.