Theodor Pištěk
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Theodor Pištěk is a renowned Czech costume and set designer, best known internationally for his opulent period work on films such as "Amadeus" and other major historical dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theodor Pištěk canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299942 — 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: Theodor Pištěk Context triple: [Valmont, costumeDesignBy, Theodor Pištěk]
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A.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
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B.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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C.
Jaroslav Havlíček
Jaroslav Havlíček was a Czech writer best known for his psychologically oriented novels and short stories from the interwar period.
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D.
Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer, dissident, and influential critic of the communist regime, known for his samizdat essays and role in the Prague Spring and human rights movements.
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E.
Jiří Dienstbier
Jiří Dienstbier was a prominent Czech journalist, dissident, and post-communist foreign minister who played a key role in the country’s democratic transition.
- 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: Theodor Pištěk Target entity description: Theodor Pištěk is a renowned Czech costume and set designer, best known internationally for his opulent period work on films such as "Amadeus" and other major historical dramas.
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A.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
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B.
Viktor Pospíšil
Viktor Pospíšil is a conductor and music director known for his leadership at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
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C.
Jaroslav Havlíček
Jaroslav Havlíček was a Czech writer best known for his psychologically oriented novels and short stories from the interwar period.
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D.
Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer, dissident, and influential critic of the communist regime, known for his samizdat essays and role in the Prague Spring and human rights movements.
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E.
Jiří Dienstbier
Jiří Dienstbier was a prominent Czech journalist, dissident, and post-communist foreign minister who played a key role in the country’s democratic transition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech artist
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costume designer ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ set designer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
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Czech Lion Award ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-10-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czechs ⓘ |
| familyName | Pištěk ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film costume design
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film set design ⓘ fine art painting ⓘ |
| genre | historical drama (film) ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodor ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Baroque art
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linked to:
Baroque
European historical fashion ⓘ Rococo art ⓘ
linked to:
Rococo
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| knownFor |
collaboration on the film Amadeus
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historical film dramas ⓘ opulent period costume design ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| name | Theodor Pištěk ⓘ |
| nationality | Czech ⓘ |
| notableWork |
collaborations with director Miloš Forman
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costume design for historical films ⓘ costume design for international film productions ⓘ costume design for period dramas ⓘ costume design for the film Amadeus ⓘ set design for feature films ⓘ |
| occupation |
costume designer
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film art director ⓘ painter ⓘ set designer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Prague ⓘ |
| residence | Prague ⓘ |
| typeOfArt | figurative painting ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
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: Theodor Pištěk Description of subject: Theodor Pištěk is a renowned Czech costume and set designer, best known internationally for his opulent period work on films such as "Amadeus" and other major historical dramas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.