Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Demme canonical | 45 |
| Robert Jonathan Demme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549654 — 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: Jonathan Demme Context triple: [Beloved, adaptationDirector, Jonathan Demme]
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A.
Steven Zaillian
Steven Zaillian is an acclaimed American screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing award-winning films such as Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman.
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B.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
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C.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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D.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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E.
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet was an acclaimed American film director known for socially conscious, character-driven dramas such as "12 Angry Men," "Serpico," and "Dog Day Afternoon."
- 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: Jonathan Demme Target entity description: Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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A.
Steven Zaillian
Steven Zaillian is an acclaimed American screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing award-winning films such as Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman.
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B.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
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C.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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D.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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E.
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet was an acclaimed American film director known for socially conscious, character-driven dramas such as "12 Angry Men," "Serpico," and "Dog Day Afternoon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Jonathan Demme Description of subject: Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Adaptation
this entity surface form:
Robert Jonathan Demme
subject surface form:
A Gifted Man
subject surface form:
Bard College Cemetery
subject surface form:
Bard College Cemetery
subject surface form:
Philadelphia (film)
subject surface form:
Philadelphia (film)