Stephen R. Johnson
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Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen R. Johnson canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8786090 — 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: Stephen R. Johnson Context triple: [Sledgehammer (music video), director, Stephen R. Johnson]
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A.
Stephen C. Johnson
Stephen C. Johnson is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Yacc parser generator and contributing to early Unix development at Bell Labs.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Peter D. Martin
Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
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D.
Bruce H. Mann
Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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E.
Michael J. Weithorn
Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
- 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: Stephen R. Johnson Target entity description: Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
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A.
Stephen C. Johnson
Stephen C. Johnson is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Yacc parser generator and contributing to early Unix development at Bell Labs.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Peter D. Martin
Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
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D.
Bruce H. Mann
Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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E.
Michael J. Weithorn
Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | groundbreaking music videos for Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| directed |
Big Time (music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Big Time
Sledgehammer (music video) ⓘ Steam (music video) ⓘ |
| director |
Stephen R. Johnson
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Stephen R. Johnson ⓘ Stephen R. Johnson ⓘ |
| field |
animation
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music video direction ⓘ |
| genre | stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| influencedField |
music video production
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stop-motion animation in music videos ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative stop-motion animation
ⓘ
music videos in the 1980s ⓘ |
| name | Stephen R. Johnson ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Time (music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Big Time
Sledgehammer (music video) ⓘ Steam (music video) ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
ⓘ
director ⓘ music video director ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Peter Gabriel
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Peter Gabriel ⓘ Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| usedTechnique |
clay animation
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pixilation ⓘ stop-motion ⓘ |
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: Stephen R. Johnson Description of subject: Stephen R. Johnson was a British director and animator best known for his innovative, stop-motion–driven music videos in the 1980s, particularly his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sledgehammer
subject linked to:
"Sledgehammer" – Peter Gabriel
subject linked to:
Stephen R. Johnson
subject linked to:
Stephen R. Johnson
subject linked to:
Stephen R. Johnson