Mark Boal
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Mark Boal is an American journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Boal canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597496 — 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: Mark Boal Context triple: [Triple Frontier, writer, Mark Boal]
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J. C. Chandor
J. C. Chandor is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing character-driven dramas and thrillers such as "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," and "A Most Violent Year."
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B.
David Michôd
David Michôd is an Australian film director and screenwriter best known for his crime drama "Animal Kingdom" and dystopian thriller "The Rover."
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Bill Condon
Bill Condon is an American film director and screenwriter known for works such as "Gods and Monsters," "Dreamgirls," and Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast."
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D.
Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, and LGBT rights activist best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for the film "Milk."
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E.
Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani is an American film director and screenwriter known for his socially conscious, character-driven independent films such as "Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop," and "99 Homes."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Boal Target entity description: Mark Boal is an American journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
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A.
J. C. Chandor
J. C. Chandor is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing character-driven dramas and thrillers such as "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," and "A Most Violent Year."
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B.
David Michôd
David Michôd is an Australian film director and screenwriter best known for his crime drama "Animal Kingdom" and dystopian thriller "The Rover."
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C.
Bill Condon
Bill Condon is an American film director and screenwriter known for works such as "Gods and Monsters," "Dreamgirls," and Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast."
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D.
Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, and LGBT rights activist best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for the film "Milk."
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E.
Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani is an American film director and screenwriter known for his socially conscious, character-driven independent films such as "Man Push Cart," "Chop Shop," and "99 Homes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Mark Boal Description of subject: Mark Boal is an American journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
subject surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
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Detroit (2017 film)
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Detroit (2017 film)
subject surface form:
Colonel Reed (The Hurt Locker)
subject surface form:
Playboy