Owen Roizman
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Owen Roizman was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and beyond.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owen Roizman canonical | 24 |
| Morrie Roizman | 1 |
| Roizman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173216 — 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: Owen Roizman Context triple: [The Exorcist, cinematographyBy, Owen Roizman]
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A.
Jay Roach
Jay Roach is an American film director and producer best known for helming hit comedies such as the Austin Powers series and Meet the Parents, as well as politically themed dramas like Recount and Trumbo.
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B.
Ted Demme
Ted Demme was an American film and television director and producer known for works such as the feature film "Blow" and various music videos and TV projects.
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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.
Bud Yorkin
Bud Yorkin was an American television producer and director best known for his influential work in 1970s sitcoms that helped redefine socially conscious TV comedy.
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E.
Zack Mazursky
Zack Mazursky is a fictional teenager in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog," whose kidnapping and murder are central to the movie’s plot, inspired by the real-life Nicholas Markowitz case.
- 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: Owen Roizman Target entity description: Owen Roizman was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and beyond.
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A.
Jay Roach
Jay Roach is an American film director and producer best known for helming hit comedies such as the Austin Powers series and Meet the Parents, as well as politically themed dramas like Recount and Trumbo.
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B.
Ted Demme
Ted Demme was an American film and television director and producer known for works such as the feature film "Blow" and various music videos and TV projects.
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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.
Bud Yorkin
Bud Yorkin was an American television producer and director best known for his influential work in 1970s sitcoms that helped redefine socially conscious TV comedy.
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E.
Zack Mazursky
Zack Mazursky is a fictional teenager in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog," whose kidnapping and murder are central to the movie’s plot, inspired by the real-life Nicholas Markowitz case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Owen Roizman Description of subject: Owen Roizman was an acclaimed American cinematographer known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and beyond.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Owen Roizman
subject linked to:
The Stepford Wives
linked to: Owen Roizman
subject linked to:
film "Wyatt Earp" (1994)
subject linked to:
Network (1976 film)