Neil Burger
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Neil Burger is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas and genre films such as "The Illusionist," "Limitless," and "Divergent."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neil Burger canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10466994 — 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: Neil Burger Context triple: [The Upside, director, Neil Burger]
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A.
Ken Biller
Ken Biller is a television writer, producer, and director best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Genius."
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B.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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C.
Alan Burgess
Alan Burgess was a British author and screenwriter best known for writing the book that inspired the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."
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D.
Michael Flanagan
Michael Flanagan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill was an American film director best known for helming acclaimed classics such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
- 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: Neil Burger Target entity description: Neil Burger is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas and genre films such as "The Illusionist," "Limitless," and "Divergent."
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A.
Ken Biller
Ken Biller is a television writer, producer, and director best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Genius."
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B.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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C.
Alan Burgess
Alan Burgess was a British author and screenwriter best known for writing the book that inspired the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."
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D.
Michael Flanagan
Michael Flanagan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill was an American film director best known for helming acclaimed classics such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film industry
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linked to:
American cinema
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| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Divergent
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Interview with the Assassin ⓘ Limitless ⓘ The Illusionist ⓘ The Lucky Ones ⓘ The Upside ⓘ Voyagers ⓘ |
| director |
Neil Burger
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Neil Burger ⓘ Neil Burger ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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fantasy film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptations of novels
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character-driven dramas ⓘ genre films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Divergent
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Interview with the Assassin ⓘ Limitless ⓘ The Illusionist ⓘ The Lucky Ones ⓘ The Upside ⓘ Voyagers ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriterFor |
Interview with the Assassin
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The Illusionist ⓘ The Lucky Ones ⓘ Voyagers ⓘ |
| workFocus |
character psychology
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moral ambiguity ⓘ speculative scenarios ⓘ |
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: Neil Burger Description of subject: Neil Burger is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas and genre films such as "The Illusionist," "Limitless," and "Divergent."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Marsh King’s Daughter (feature film)
subject linked to:
Neil Burger
subject linked to:
Neil Burger
subject linked to:
Neil Burger