Demy
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Demy is a French surname most notably associated with filmmaker Jacques Demy, a key figure in the French New Wave cinema movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Demy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10790911 — 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: Demy Context triple: [Jacques Demy, familyName, Demy]
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A.
Emmie
Emmie is a diminutive given name, typically used as a affectionate or informal variant of names like Emma.
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B.
Genie
Genie is a powerful, wisecracking magical being from Disney's animated film "Aladdin," best known for granting wishes and his energetic, comedic personality.
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C.
Lila
Lila is a central female character in Max Frisch’s novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein," around whom the narrator constructs one of his imagined lives and relationships.
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D.
Lila
Lila is a novel by Marilynne Robinson that continues her acclaimed Gilead series, exploring themes of grace, poverty, and belonging through the life of its enigmatic title character.
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E.
Dami
Dami is a diminutive or affectionate short form of the given name Damian.
- 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: Demy Target entity description: Demy is a French surname most notably associated with filmmaker Jacques Demy, a key figure in the French New Wave cinema movement.
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A.
Emmie
Emmie is a diminutive given name, typically used as a affectionate or informal variant of names like Emma.
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B.
Genie
Genie is a powerful, wisecracking magical being from Disney's animated film "Aladdin," best known for granting wishes and his energetic, comedic personality.
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C.
Lila
Lila is a central female character in Max Frisch’s novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein," around whom the narrator constructs one of his imagined lives and relationships.
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D.
Lila
Lila is a novel by Marilynne Robinson that continues her acclaimed Gilead series, exploring themes of grace, poverty, and belonging through the life of its enigmatic title character.
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E.
Dami
Dami is a diminutive or affectionate short form of the given name Damian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French filmmaker
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French-language surname ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Demy ⓘ |
| genre | musical film ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| movement |
French New Wave
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French New Wave ⓘ |
| nationality |
French
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French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Donkey Skin
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linked to:
Donkeyskin
Lola ⓘ The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ⓘ The Young Girls of Rochefort ⓘ |
| notablyBorneBy | Jacques Demy ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnès Varda ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Demy Description of subject: Demy is a French surname most notably associated with filmmaker Jacques Demy, a key figure in the French New Wave cinema movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.