Steve Miner
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Steve Miner is an American film and television director best known for his work in the horror genre, including entries in the Friday the 13th and Halloween franchises.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Miner canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7950544 — 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)
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Target entity: Steve Miner Context triple: [Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, director, Steve Miner]
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A.
Bob Fouts
Bob Fouts was an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a play-by-play announcer for San Francisco Bay Area sports teams.
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B.
Steve Dahl
Steve Dahl is a Chicago radio personality and humorist best known for his role in the infamous 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" promotion and his influential, irreverent style on FM talk radio.
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C.
George McGinnis
George McGinnis is a Hall of Fame American basketball forward known for his dominant scoring and rebounding in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s, particularly with the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers.
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D.
Bill Wittliff
Bill Wittliff was an American screenwriter, author, and photographer best known for adapting and writing acclaimed Western-themed films and television miniseries.
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E.
Ted Daughety
Ted Daughety is an American physician and pulmonologist best known as the husband of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
- 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: Steve Miner Target entity description: Steve Miner is an American film and television director best known for his work in the horror genre, including entries in the Friday the 13th and Halloween franchises.
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A.
Bob Fouts
Bob Fouts was an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a play-by-play announcer for San Francisco Bay Area sports teams.
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B.
Steve Dahl
Steve Dahl is a Chicago radio personality and humorist best known for his role in the infamous 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" promotion and his influential, irreverent style on FM talk radio.
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C.
George McGinnis
George McGinnis is a Hall of Fame American basketball forward known for his dominant scoring and rebounding in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s, particularly with the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers.
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D.
Bill Wittliff
Bill Wittliff was an American screenwriter, author, and photographer best known for adapting and writing acclaimed Western-themed films and television miniseries.
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E.
Ted Daughety
Ted Daughety is an American physician and pulmonologist best known as the husband of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Day of the Dead (2008 film)
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Forever Young ⓘ Friday the 13th Part 2 ⓘ Friday the 13th Part III ⓘ Halloween H20: 20 Years Later ⓘ House ⓘ Lake Placid ⓘ Soul Man ⓘ Texas Rangers ⓘ Warlock ⓘ |
| directedTelevisionSeries |
Chicago Hope
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Dawson's Creek ⓘ Diagnosis: Murder ⓘ Eureka ⓘ Felicity ⓘ Psych ⓘ Smallville ⓘ The Practice ⓘ
linked to:
The Practice (1976 TV series)
The Wonder Years ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing entries in the Friday the 13th franchise
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directing entries in the Halloween franchise ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Forever Young
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Friday the 13th Part 2 ⓘ Friday the 13th Part III ⓘ Halloween H20: 20 Years Later ⓘ House ⓘ Lake Placid ⓘ Soul Man ⓘ Warlock ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Steve Miner Description of subject: Steve Miner is an American film and television director best known for his work in the horror genre, including entries in the Friday the 13th and Halloween franchises.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.