David Yates
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David Yates is a British film and television director best known for helming multiple films in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Yates canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995709 — 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: David Yates Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, director, David Yates]
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A.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
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B.
J. A. Bayona
J. A. Bayona is a Spanish film director known for visually striking, emotionally intense works such as "The Orphanage," "The Impossible," and "A Monster Calls."
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C.
Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker and actor best known for directing films such as "Tsotsi," which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and big-budget features like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Ender's Game."
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D.
Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a British film editor and director best known for his work on the early James Bond films, including directing "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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E.
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.
- 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: David Yates Target entity description: David Yates is a British film and television director best known for helming multiple films in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises.
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A.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
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B.
J. A. Bayona
J. A. Bayona is a Spanish film director known for visually striking, emotionally intense works such as "The Orphanage," "The Impossible," and "A Monster Calls."
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C.
Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker and actor best known for directing films such as "Tsotsi," which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and big-budget features like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Ender's Game."
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D.
Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a British film editor and director best known for his work on the early James Bond films, including directing "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
ⓘ
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sex Traffic (TV serial) ⓘ State of Play (TV serial) ⓘ
linked to:
State of Play (2003 TV serial)
The Girl in the Café (television film) ⓘ The Legend of Tarzan (2016 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Legend of Tarzan
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| employer | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| familyName | Yates ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
drama film
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fantasy film ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Yates ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing multiple Fantastic Beasts films
ⓘ
directing multiple Harry Potter films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
ⓘ
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) ⓘ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sex Traffic (TV serial) ⓘ State of Play (TV serial) ⓘ
linked to:
State of Play (2003 TV serial)
The Girl in the Café (television film) ⓘ The Legend of Tarzan (2016 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Legend of Tarzan
|
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: David Yates Description of subject: David Yates is a British film and television director best known for helming multiple films in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
2001 BBC television serial "The Way We Live Now"
subject linked to:
The Girl in the Café (television film)
subject linked to:
The Young Visiters