Simon Barrett
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Simon Barrett is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for his work on horror and thriller films such as "You're Next" and "The Guest."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Barrett canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9385513 — 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: Simon Barrett Context triple: [Adam Wingard, notableCollaboration, Simon Barrett]
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A.
John Butler
John Butler was a prominent Loyalist military leader during the American Revolutionary War, best known for commanding Butler's Rangers in frontier campaigns against American revolutionaries.
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B.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
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C.
Robert DeLeo
Robert DeLeo is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
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D.
Martin Barre
Martin Barre is an English rock guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.
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E.
Neil Hartley
Neil Hartley is a film and television producer known for his work on the adaptation of "The Go-Between."
- 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: Simon Barrett Target entity description: Simon Barrett is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for his work on horror and thriller films such as "You're Next" and "The Guest."
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A.
John Butler
John Butler was a prominent Loyalist military leader during the American Revolutionary War, best known for commanding Butler's Rangers in frontier campaigns against American revolutionaries.
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B.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-running creative collaboration with PJ Harvey and his work on numerous alternative rock and indie projects.
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C.
Robert DeLeo
Robert DeLeo is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
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D.
Martin Barre
Martin Barre is an English rock guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.
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E.
Neil Hartley
Neil Hartley is a film and television producer known for his work on the adaptation of "The Go-Between."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Adam Wingard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaborations with director Adam Wingard ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Horrible Way to Die
ⓘ
Blair Witch ⓘ
linked to:
The Blair Witch Project
Dead Birds ⓘ Seance ⓘ The Guest ⓘ V/H/S ⓘ V/H/S/2 ⓘ
linked to:
V/H/S
You're Next ⓘ
linked to:
You’re Next
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
A Horrible Way to Die
ⓘ
Blair Witch ⓘ
linked to:
The Blair Witch Project
Seance ⓘ The Guest ⓘ V/H/S ⓘ V/H/S/2 ⓘ
linked to:
V/H/S
You're Next ⓘ
linked to:
You’re Next
|
| wroteScreenplayFor |
A Horrible Way to Die
ⓘ
Seance ⓘ The Guest ⓘ You're Next ⓘ
linked to:
You’re Next
|
| wroteSegmentFor |
V/H/S
ⓘ
V/H/S/2 ⓘ
linked to:
V/H/S
|
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: Simon Barrett Description of subject: Simon Barrett is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for his work on horror and thriller films such as "You're Next" and "The Guest."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.