Uli Edel
E887171
Uli Edel is a German film and television director best known for works such as "Christiane F." and the HBO miniseries "The Mists of Avalon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uli Edel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10737597 — 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: Uli Edel Context triple: [The Mists of Avalon, director, Uli Edel]
-
A.
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes was a German-born film director active in Hollywood and Britain during the early to mid-20th century, known for his work on both silent and sound films.
-
B.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
-
C.
Walter Rohland
Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
-
D.
Günter Dreyer
Günter Dreyer was a German Egyptologist renowned for his excavations at Abydos and his contributions to the study of Egypt’s earliest dynastic periods.
-
E.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
- 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: Uli Edel Target entity description: Uli Edel is a German film and television director best known for works such as "Christiane F." and the HBO miniseries "The Mists of Avalon."
-
A.
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes was a German-born film director active in Hollywood and Britain during the early to mid-20th century, known for his work on both silent and sound films.
-
B.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
-
C.
Walter Rohland
Walter Rohland was a German industrialist and steel executive who played a significant role in managing armaments production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
-
D.
Günter Dreyer
Günter Dreyer was a German Egyptologist renowned for his excavations at Abydos and his contributions to the study of Egypt’s earliest dynastic periods.
-
E.
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, contributing to notable films such as "Gaslight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| birthName | Ulrich Edel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| collaboratedOn |
Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Baader Meinhof Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-04-11 ⓘ |
| directed |
Body of Evidence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Exit to Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny NERFINISHED ⓘ Ring of the Nibelungs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Baader Meinhof Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ The Little Vampire NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mists of Avalon NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Television and Film Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| name | Uli Edel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting controversial and socially critical subjects in film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Body of Evidence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christiane F. NERFINISHED ⓘ Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Exit to Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ The Baader Meinhof Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mists of Avalon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Neuenburg am Rhein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Munich ⓘ |
| spouse | Monika Edel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Bernd Eichinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workNominated | The Baader Meinhof Complex 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: Uli Edel Description of subject: Uli Edel is a German film and television director best known for works such as "Christiane F." and the HBO miniseries "The Mists of Avalon."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.