Curtis Hanson
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Curtis Hanson was an American filmmaker best known for his stylish, character-driven thrillers and dramas, including the acclaimed neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Curtis Hanson canonical | 35 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1227488 — 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: Curtis Hanson Context triple: [L.A. Confidential, director, Curtis Hanson]
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A.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
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B.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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C.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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D.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
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E.
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."
- 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: Curtis Hanson Target entity description: Curtis Hanson was an American filmmaker best known for his stylish, character-driven thrillers and dramas, including the acclaimed neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential."
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A.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
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B.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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C.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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D.
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for stylish genre films such as "The Lost Boys," "Falling Down," and two Batman movies in the 1990s.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Curtis Hanson Description of subject: Curtis Hanson was an American filmmaker best known for his stylish, character-driven thrillers and dramas, including the acclaimed neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential."
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mrs. Mott in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
subject linked to:
Craig Kitson
subject linked to:
Dudley Smith in L.A. Confidential
subject linked to:
Dudley Smith in L.A. Confidential