Mike Newell
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Mike Newell is a British film director known for works such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Newell canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T863408 — 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: Mike Newell Context triple: [Love in the Time of Cholera, filmAdaptationDirector, Mike Newell]
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A.
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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B.
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing and producing acclaimed films such as Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, as well as co-creating the television series Thirtysomething.
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C.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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D.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
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E.
David Leslie
David Leslie was a 17th-century Scottish general and Covenanter leader best known for commanding Scottish forces against Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- 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: Mike Newell Target entity description: Mike Newell is a British film director known for works such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
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A.
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor-turned-director known for his work in Hollywood on acclaimed films from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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B.
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing and producing acclaimed films such as Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, as well as co-creating the television series Thirtysomething.
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C.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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D.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
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E.
David Leslie
David Leslie was a 17th-century Scottish general and Covenanter leader best known for commanding Scottish forces against Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Mike Newell Description of subject: Mike Newell is a British film director known for works such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Donnie Brasco," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral
subject linked to:
Great Expectations
subject linked to:
novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"