Steve McQueen (British director)
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Steve McQueen is an acclaimed British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his innovative, socially engaged visual style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve McQueen (director) | 5 |
| Steve McQueen (British director) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9113588 — 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: Steve McQueen (British director) Context triple: [Alfre Woodard, hasWorkedWith, Steve McQueen (British director)]
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John Boorman
John Boorman is a British film director best known for acclaimed and visually striking works such as "Deliverance," "Point Blank," and "Excalibur."
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Donald Cammell
Donald Cammell was a British film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the cult classic "Performance" and for his visually experimental, psychologically intense style.
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Bruce Gilliat
Bruce Gilliat is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Alexa Internet, a pioneering web traffic analysis and ranking service.
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Andrew Dominik
Andrew Dominik is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter known for his visually striking, character-driven dramas such as "Chopper," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," and "Blonde."
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E.
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his fast-paced, stylized crime comedies such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and "The Gentlemen."
- 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 McQueen (British director) Target entity description: Steve McQueen is an acclaimed British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his innovative, socially engaged visual style.
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A.
John Boorman
John Boorman is a British film director best known for acclaimed and visually striking works such as "Deliverance," "Point Blank," and "Excalibur."
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B.
Donald Cammell
Donald Cammell was a British film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the cult classic "Performance" and for his visually experimental, psychologically intense style.
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C.
Bruce Gilliat
Bruce Gilliat is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Alexa Internet, a pioneering web traffic analysis and ranking service.
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D.
Andrew Dominik
Andrew Dominik is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter known for his visually striking, character-driven dramas such as "Chopper," "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," and "Blonde."
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E.
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his fast-paced, stylized crime comedies such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and "The Gentlemen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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 McQueen (British director) Description of subject: Steve McQueen is an acclaimed British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his innovative, socially engaged visual style.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steve McQueen (British director)
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linked to: Steve McQueen (British director)
linked to: Steve McQueen (British director)