Michael Steinberg
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Michael Steinberg is an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on independent dramas in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Steinberg canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11680706 — 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: Michael Steinberg Context triple: [The Waterdance, director, Michael Steinberg]
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A.
Michael P. Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg is an American historian and musicologist known for his scholarship on German cultural and intellectual history and his leadership roles in higher education.
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B.
George Avakian
George Avakian was an influential American record producer and jazz historian known for his pioneering work in modern jazz recording and album production, particularly at Columbia Records.
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C.
Larry Levine
Larry Levine was an influential American recording engineer best known for his work with producer Phil Spector on landmark 1960s pop recordings.
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D.
Jack Levine
Jack Levine was an American social realist painter and printmaker known for his satirical, politically charged depictions of urban life and power figures in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Gordon Bernstein
Gordon Bernstein is a central physicist protagonist in Gregory Benford's science fiction novel "Timescape," known for his role in attempting to communicate warnings about ecological disaster across time.
- 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: Michael Steinberg Target entity description: Michael Steinberg is an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on independent dramas in the 1990s.
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A.
Michael P. Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg is an American historian and musicologist known for his scholarship on German cultural and intellectual history and his leadership roles in higher education.
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B.
George Avakian
George Avakian was an influential American record producer and jazz historian known for his pioneering work in modern jazz recording and album production, particularly at Columbia Records.
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C.
Larry Levine
Larry Levine was an influential American recording engineer best known for his work with producer Phil Spector on landmark 1960s pop recordings.
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D.
Jack Levine
Jack Levine was an American social realist painter and printmaker known for his satirical, politically charged depictions of urban life and power figures in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Gordon Bernstein
Gordon Bernstein is a central physicist protagonist in Gregory Benford's science fiction novel "Timescape," known for his role in attempting to communicate warnings about ecological disaster across time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Bodies, Rest & Motion
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Interstate 84 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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independent film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | independent dramas in the 1990s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bodies, Rest & Motion
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Interstate 84 ⓘ The Waterdance ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
Bodies, Rest & Motion
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Interstate 84 ⓘ The Waterdance ⓘ |
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: Michael Steinberg Description of subject: Michael Steinberg is an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on independent dramas in the 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.