Dan Curtis
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Dan Curtis was an American director and producer best known for creating the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and directing large-scale television miniseries such as "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Curtis canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7581151 — 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: Dan Curtis Context triple: [The Winds of War, director, Dan Curtis]
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A.
Reg Rogers
Reg Rogers is an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, often portraying eccentric or villainous roles.
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B.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
- 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: Dan Curtis Target entity description: Dan Curtis was an American director and producer best known for creating the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and directing large-scale television miniseries such as "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance."
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A.
Reg Rogers
Reg Rogers is an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, often portraying eccentric or villainous roles.
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B.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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C.
Gordon Douglas
Gordon Douglas was an American film director known for his prolific work across genres in Hollywood from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Daniel Mayer Cherkoss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | Dark Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-08-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-03-27 ⓘ |
| directed |
Burnt Offerings
NERFINISHED
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Dark Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ Dracula (1974 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Intruders (1992 miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Stalker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Strangler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Turn of the Screw (1974 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winds of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Trilogy of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Remembrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
gothic fiction
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horror ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| name | Dan Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows
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directing large-scale television miniseries about World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dark Shadows
NERFINISHED
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The Winds of War NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Remembrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
director
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producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produced |
Burnt Offerings
NERFINISHED
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Dark Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Stalker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Strangler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winds of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Trilogy of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Remembrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Norma Mae Klein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dan Curtis Description of subject: Dan Curtis was an American director and producer best known for creating the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and directing large-scale television miniseries such as "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.