Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant is an American filmmaker known for his distinctive independent cinema style and acclaimed films such as "Good Will Hunting," "Milk," and "My Own Private Idaho."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gus Van Sant canonical | 46 |
| Gus Green Van Sant Jr. | 1 |
| Gus Van Sant filmography | 1 |
| Van Sant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T662806 — 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: Gus Van Sant Context triple: [Danny Elfman, hasCollaboratedWith, Gus Van Sant]
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A.
Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick is an American filmmaker renowned for his visually poetic, philosophical films that often explore nature, memory, and spirituality.
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B.
James Gray
James Gray is an American filmmaker known for his character-driven dramas and visually rich, classical storytelling in films such as "The Lost City of Z," "Ad Astra," and "We Own the Night."
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C.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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D.
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker known for his psychologically intense, visually distinctive films such as "Requiem for a Dream," "Black Swan," and "The Wrestler."
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E.
Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is an American film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, genre-challenging works such as "Far from Heaven," "Carol," and "Safe," often exploring themes of identity, sexuality, and social norms.
- 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: Gus Van Sant Target entity description: Gus Van Sant is an American filmmaker known for his distinctive independent cinema style and acclaimed films such as "Good Will Hunting," "Milk," and "My Own Private Idaho."
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A.
Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick is an American filmmaker renowned for his visually poetic, philosophical films that often explore nature, memory, and spirituality.
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B.
James Gray
James Gray is an American filmmaker known for his character-driven dramas and visually rich, classical storytelling in films such as "The Lost City of Z," "Ad Astra," and "We Own the Night."
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C.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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D.
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker known for his psychologically intense, visually distinctive films such as "Requiem for a Dream," "Black Swan," and "The Wrestler."
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E.
Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is an American film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, genre-challenging works such as "Far from Heaven," "Carol," and "Safe," often exploring themes of identity, sexuality, and social norms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ painter ⓘ photographer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1980s ⓘ |
| birthName |
Gus Van Sant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gus Green Van Sant Jr.
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-24 ⓘ |
| directed |
Drugstore Cowboy
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Elephant ⓘ Finding Forrester ⓘ Gerry ⓘ Good Will Hunting ⓘ Last Days ⓘ Milk ⓘ My Own Private Idaho ⓘ Paranoid Park ⓘ Psycho ⓘ
surface form:
Psycho (1998 film)
To Die For ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Rhode Island School of Design ⓘ |
| familyName |
Gus Van Sant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Van Sant
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| genre |
LGBT-related film
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drama film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Gus ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.gusvansant.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor | distinctive independent cinema style ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Queer Cinema ⓘ |
| name | Gus Van Sant self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Academy Award for Best Director
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Director nomination
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination
Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) ⓘ
surface form:
Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award
Palme d’Or ⓘ
surface form:
Palme d'Or
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| notableWork |
Drugstore Cowboy
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Elephant ⓘ Finding Forrester ⓘ Gerry ⓘ Good Will Hunting ⓘ Last Days ⓘ Milk ⓘ My Own Private Idaho ⓘ Paranoid Park ⓘ Psycho ⓘ
surface form:
Psycho (1998 film)
To Die For ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ musician ⓘ painter ⓘ photographer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Louisville, Kentucky
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surface form:
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Gus Van Sant Description of subject: Gus Van Sant is an American filmmaker known for his distinctive independent cinema style and acclaimed films such as "Good Will Hunting," "Milk," and "My Own Private Idaho."
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Danny Elfman
this entity surface form:
Gus Green Van Sant Jr.
this entity surface form:
Van Sant
subject surface form:
Elephant (2003 film)
this entity surface form:
Gus Van Sant filmography
subject surface form:
Gerry (2002 film)