Emeric Pressburger
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Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his influential partnership with Michael Powell on classic British films such as "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emeric Pressburger canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156734 — 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: Emeric Pressburger Context triple: [Two Cities Films, collaboratedWith, Emeric Pressburger]
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A.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
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B.
Karel Reisz
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and key figure of the British New Wave, best known for directing influential realist dramas such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Vincent Van Patten
Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and poker commentator known for his roles in film and television as well as his work on the World Poker Tour.
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E.
Jules Bass
Jules Bass was an American director, producer, and writer best known for his work on classic stop-motion and animated holiday television specials created with Rankin/Bass 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: Emeric Pressburger Target entity description: Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his influential partnership with Michael Powell on classic British films such as "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death."
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A.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
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B.
Karel Reisz
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and key figure of the British New Wave, best known for directing influential realist dramas such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
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C.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin was a British film director known for his work on large-scale adventure and disaster films, including the 1976 remake of King Kong and The Towering Inferno.
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D.
Vincent Van Patten
Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and poker commentator known for his roles in film and television as well as his work on the World Poker Tour.
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E.
Jules Bass
Jules Bass was an American director, producer, and writer best known for his work on classic stop-motion and animated holiday television specials created with Rankin/Bass Productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hungarian-British person
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Kevin Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Hungary
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coFounded | The Archers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1902-12-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-02-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emigratedTo | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pressburger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film direction ⓘ film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| fullName | Imre József Pressburger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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fantasy film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Emeric
NERFINISHED
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Imre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Hungarian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
49th Parallel
NERFINISHED
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A Canterbury Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ A Matter of Life and Death NERFINISHED ⓘ A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Narcissus NERFINISHED ⓘ Gone to Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ I Know Where I’m Going! NERFINISHED ⓘ One of Our Aircraft Is Missing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Small Back Room NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tales of Hoffmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partnerInArtisticCollaboration | Michael Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Miskolc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Saxtead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Wendy Orme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Germany
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom 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: Emeric Pressburger Description of subject: Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his influential partnership with Michael Powell on classic British films such as "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.