Matthew Rolston
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Matthew Rolston is an American photographer and director renowned for his stylized celebrity portraiture and visually distinctive music videos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew Rolston canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8904482 — 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: Matthew Rolston Context triple: [Best Friend, musicVideoDirector, Matthew Rolston]
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A.
Matthew Rolph
Matthew Rolph is an American actor and comedian best known for his marriage to actress and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub.
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B.
Steve Ralston
Steve Ralston is a former American soccer midfielder best known as a longtime MLS standout and U.S. national team player, particularly with the New England Revolution.
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C.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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E.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
- 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: Matthew Rolston Target entity description: Matthew Rolston is an American photographer and director renowned for his stylized celebrity portraiture and visually distinctive music videos.
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A.
Matthew Rolph
Matthew Rolph is an American actor and comedian best known for his marriage to actress and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub.
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B.
Steve Ralston
Steve Ralston is a former American soccer midfielder best known as a longtime MLS standout and U.S. national team player, particularly with the New England Revolution.
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C.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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E.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ music video director ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
ArtCenter College of Design
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linked to:
Art Center College of Design
Otis College of Art and Design ⓘ San Francisco Art Institute ⓘ
linked to:
California School of Fine Arts
|
| fieldOfWork |
advertising photography
ⓘ
celebrity portrait photography ⓘ music videos ⓘ |
| genre |
glamour photography
ⓘ
portrait photography ⓘ |
| hasDirectedCommercialFor |
Absolut Vodka
ⓘ
L'Oréal ⓘ Levi's ⓘ Revlon ⓘ Victoria's Secret ⓘ
linked to:
Victoria’s Secret
|
| hasDirectedMusicVideoFor |
Beyoncé
ⓘ
Christina Aguilera ⓘ En Vogue ⓘ Janet Jackson ⓘ Madonna ⓘ |
| hasPhotographed |
Christina Aguilera
ⓘ
Drew Barrymore ⓘ Johnny Depp ⓘ Madonna ⓘ Michael Jackson ⓘ |
| hasWorkedFor |
Harper's Bazaar
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linked to:
Harper’s Bazaar
Interview magazine ⓘ Rolling Stone ⓘ The New York Times Magazine ⓘ Vogue ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editorial photography
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stylized celebrity portraiture ⓘ visually distinctive music videos ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Interview magazine celebrity portraits
ⓘ
Rolling Stone celebrity portraits ⓘ
linked to:
Rolling Stone
music videos for major pop artists ⓘ |
| occupation |
commercial director
ⓘ
director ⓘ music video director ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| style |
high-gloss visual aesthetic
ⓘ
highly stylized lighting ⓘ theatrical composition ⓘ |
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: Matthew Rolston Description of subject: Matthew Rolston is an American photographer and director renowned for his stylized celebrity portraiture and visually distinctive music videos.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
song "Candyman" by Christina Aguilera
subject linked to:
“Work It Out” (Beyoncé) music video
subject linked to:
Bedtime Story (Madonna music video)
subject linked to:
song "Creep" by TLC