Frears
E869144
Frears is the surname of Stephen Frears, the acclaimed British film director known for works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Queen," and "Philomena."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frears canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513511 — 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: Frears Context triple: [Stephen Frears, familyName, Frears]
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A.
Friels
Friels is a surname most notably associated with Australian actor Colin Friels.
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B.
Frewer
Frewer is a surname most notably associated with Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer, known for portraying the character Max Headroom.
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C.
Frere
Frere is an English surname most notably associated with Sir Henry Bartle Frere, a 19th-century British colonial administrator and diplomat.
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D.
Flecher
Flecher is a variant spelling of the surname Fletcher, which traditionally refers to a maker or seller of arrows.
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E.
Flaherty
Flaherty is an unincorporated community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
- 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: Frears Target entity description: Frears is the surname of Stephen Frears, the acclaimed British film director known for works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Queen," and "Philomena."
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A.
Friels
Friels is a surname most notably associated with Australian actor Colin Friels.
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B.
Frewer
Frewer is a surname most notably associated with Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer, known for portraying the character Max Headroom.
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C.
Frere
Frere is an English surname most notably associated with Sir Henry Bartle Frere, a 19th-century British colonial administrator and diplomat.
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D.
Flecher
Flecher is a variant spelling of the surname Fletcher, which traditionally refers to a maker or seller of arrows.
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E.
Flaherty
Flaherty is an unincorporated community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director |
Stephen Frears
ⓘ
Stephen Frears ⓘ Stephen Frears ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Stephen Frears ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dangerous Liaisons
ⓘ
Philomena ⓘ The Queen ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
television director ⓘ |
| usedBy | Stephen Frears ⓘ |
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: Frears Description of subject: Frears is the surname of Stephen Frears, the acclaimed British film director known for works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Queen," and "Philomena."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.