Curtis Bernhardt
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Curtis Bernhardt was a German-born film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, often specializing in psychological dramas and film noir.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Curtis Bernhardt canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7345178 — 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: Curtis Bernhardt Context triple: [Possessed (1947 film), director, Curtis Bernhardt]
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A.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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B.
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian-born character actor best known for providing the original voice of the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the early James Bond films.
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C.
Colin Englert
Colin Englert is an Australian filmmaker and assistant director best known for his work in film and television and for his former marriage to acclaimed director Jane Campion.
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D.
Michael Bernhard
Michael Bernhard is a political scientist known for his scholarship on democratization and for serving as editor-in-chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics.
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E.
Greg Behrendt
Greg Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author best known for co-writing the relationship advice book "He's Just Not That Into You."
- 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: Curtis Bernhardt Target entity description: Curtis Bernhardt was a German-born film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, often specializing in psychological dramas and film noir.
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A.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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B.
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian-born character actor best known for providing the original voice of the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the early James Bond films.
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C.
Colin Englert
Colin Englert is an Australian filmmaker and assistant director best known for his work in film and television and for his former marriage to acclaimed director Jane Campion.
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D.
Michael Bernhard
Michael Bernhard is a political scientist known for his scholarship on democratization and for serving as editor-in-chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics.
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E.
Greg Behrendt
Greg Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author best known for co-writing the relationship advice book "He's Just Not That Into You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Curtis Bernhardt Description of subject: Curtis Bernhardt was a German-born film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, often specializing in psychological dramas and film noir.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Academy Award for Best Actress for Possessed (1947 film)
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directorOfNominatedWork
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Curtis Bernhardt
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subject linked to:
The Doctor and the Girl (1949 film)