Paul Schrader
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Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his intense, psychologically driven dramas and frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Schrader canonical | 73 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180691 — 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: Paul Schrader Context triple: [Taxi Driver, screenwriter, Paul Schrader]
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A.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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B.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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C.
Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah was an influential American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and stylized, often violent portrayals of masculinity and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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E.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
- 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: Paul Schrader Target entity description: Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his intense, psychologically driven dramas and frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
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A.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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B.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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C.
Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah was an influential American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and stylized, often violent portrayals of masculinity and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich was an influential American filmmaker, critic, and historian associated with the New Hollywood movement, best known for directing films like "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon."
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E.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Paul Schrader Description of subject: Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his intense, psychologically driven dramas and frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.