Peter Yates
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Peter Yates was a British film director best known for stylish, character-driven works including the influential action thriller "Bullitt."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Yates canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2273974 — 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: Peter Yates Context triple: [Bullitt, director, Peter Yates]
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A.
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his ambitious, visually striking dramas and his Oscar-winning work on the Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter."
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B.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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D.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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E.
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."
- 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: Peter Yates Target entity description: Peter Yates was a British film director best known for stylish, character-driven works including the influential action thriller "Bullitt."
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A.
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his ambitious, visually striking dramas and his Oscar-winning work on the Vietnam War epic "The Deer Hunter."
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B.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor known for acclaimed movies such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "The Firm."
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D.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Peter Yates Description of subject: Peter Yates was a British film director best known for stylish, character-driven works including the influential action thriller "Bullitt."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.