Simon Raby
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Simon Raby is a New Zealand cinematographer known for his work on visually ambitious genre films, including the 2018 adaptation of "Mortal Engines."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Raby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10254841 — 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 Raby Context triple: [Mortal Engines (2018 film), cinematographer, Simon Raby]
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A.
Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd is a sustainability and climate-focused business leader known for his executive role at the environmental nonprofit Carbon War Room.
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B.
Herbert Worboys
Herbert Worboys was a British official and designer best known for creating the Worboys Committee’s modern road sign system that transformed traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
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D.
Edward Barber
Edward Barber is a British industrial designer best known as one half of the design duo Barber Osgerby, recognized for projects including the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
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E.
Martin Bell
Martin Bell is a British former war correspondent and independent politician best known for winning the Tatton parliamentary seat in 1997 on an anti-corruption platform.
- 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 Raby Target entity description: Simon Raby is a New Zealand cinematographer known for his work on visually ambitious genre films, including the 2018 adaptation of "Mortal Engines."
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A.
Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd is a sustainability and climate-focused business leader known for his executive role at the environmental nonprofit Carbon War Room.
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B.
Herbert Worboys
Herbert Worboys was a British official and designer best known for creating the Worboys Committee’s modern road sign system that transformed traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
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D.
Edward Barber
Edward Barber is a British industrial designer best known as one half of the design duo Barber Osgerby, recognized for projects including the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
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E.
Martin Bell
Martin Bell is a British former war correspondent and independent politician best known for winning the Tatton parliamentary seat in 1997 on an anti-corruption platform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeIn | New Zealand film industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| employer | various film production companies in New Zealand ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinematography
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film ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
action films
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fantasy films ⓘ science fiction films ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Mortal Engines (2018 film)
NERFINISHED
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visually ambitious genre films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | New Zealander ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Mortal Engines production team ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mortal Engines (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| residence | New Zealand film industry ⓘ |
| roleInWork | director of photography on Mortal Engines (2018 film) ⓘ |
| workedOn | Mortal Engines (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Raby Description of subject: Simon Raby is a New Zealand cinematographer known for his work on visually ambitious genre films, including the 2018 adaptation of "Mortal Engines."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.