Haskell Wexler
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Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haskell Wexler canonical | 26 |
| Cinematographer Haskell Wexler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T691502 — 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: Haskell Wexler Context triple: [American Graffiti, cinematography, Haskell Wexler]
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A.
Robert A. Altman
Robert A. Altman was an American lawyer and businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of video game publisher ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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B.
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was a pioneering African American photographer, filmmaker, and writer renowned for his powerful documentation of social justice issues and everyday Black life in the United States.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Robert Altman
Robert Altman was an influential American filmmaker known for his innovative ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue, and satirical, genre-defying films such as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "Short Cuts."
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E.
Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland was a pioneering American cinematographer renowned for his innovative deep-focus and lighting techniques, most famously showcased in Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane."
- 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: Haskell Wexler Target entity description: Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
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A.
Robert A. Altman
Robert A. Altman was an American lawyer and businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of video game publisher ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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B.
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was a pioneering African American photographer, filmmaker, and writer renowned for his powerful documentation of social justice issues and everyday Black life in the United States.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Robert Altman
Robert Altman was an influential American filmmaker known for his innovative ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue, and satirical, genre-defying films such as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "Short Cuts."
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E.
Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland was a pioneering American cinematographer renowned for his innovative deep-focus and lighting techniques, most famously showcased in Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
documentary filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
|
| awardReceivedForWork |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Bound for Glory
Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
| child | Jeff Wexler ⓘ |
| cinematography |
Bound for Glory
ⓘ
Coming Home ⓘ In the Heat of the Night ⓘ Matewan ⓘ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ⓘ
surface form:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ⓘ
surface form:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-02-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-12-27 ⓘ |
| directed |
Bus Riders Union
ⓘ
Latino ⓘ Medium Cool ⓘ Who Needs Sleep? ⓘ |
| familyName | Wexler ⓘ |
| fullName | Haskell Wexler self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Haskell ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative visual style
ⓘ
politically engaged filmmaking ⓘ |
| militaryService |
United States merchant marine
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Merchant Marine
|
| movement | political cinema ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Matewan
Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
|
| notableWork |
Bound for Glory
ⓘ
Coming Home ⓘ In the Heat of the Night ⓘ Matewan ⓘ Medium Cool ⓘ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ⓘ
surface form:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ⓘ
surface form:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
documentary filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Rita Taggart ⓘ |
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: Haskell Wexler Description of subject: Haskell Wexler was an acclaimed American cinematographer and filmmaker known for his innovative visual style and influential work on both narrative features and political documentaries.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cinematographer Haskell Wexler
subject surface form:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)