Mark Sourian
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Mark Sourian is a film producer known for working on major studio projects, including action and genre films for Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Sourian canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2199260 — 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: Mark Sourian Context triple: [Need for Speed (2014 film), producer, Mark Sourian]
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A.
Mark Gastineau
Mark Gastineau is a former American football defensive end best known as a star pass rusher for the New York Jets in the 1980s and a key member of the famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line.
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B.
Gary Dourdan
Gary Dourdan is an American actor best known for playing Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
Michael Fortier
Michael Fortier is an American former associate of Timothy McVeigh who became known for his involvement in and testimony about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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E.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
- 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: Mark Sourian Target entity description: Mark Sourian is a film producer known for working on major studio projects, including action and genre films for Hollywood.
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A.
Mark Gastineau
Mark Gastineau is a former American football defensive end best known as a star pass rusher for the New York Jets in the 1980s and a key member of the famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line.
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B.
Gary Dourdan
Gary Dourdan is an American actor best known for playing Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
Michael Fortier
Michael Fortier is an American former associate of Timothy McVeigh who became known for his involvement in and testimony about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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E.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film producer ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | major film studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing Hollywood action films
ⓘ
producing genre films ⓘ producing major studio films ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Mark Sourian Description of subject: Mark Sourian is a film producer known for working on major studio projects, including action and genre films for Hollywood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.