Alan Osbiston
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Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Osbiston canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1158708 — 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: Alan Osbiston Context triple: [The Night of the Generals, editedBy, Alan Osbiston]
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
John Bowers
John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
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C.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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D.
Kevin McClory
Kevin McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his long-running legal battles and involvement in the creation and adaptation of the James Bond story "Thunderball."
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- 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: Alan Osbiston Target entity description: Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
John Bowers
John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
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C.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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D.
Kevin McClory
Kevin McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his long-running legal battles and involvement in the creation and adaptation of the James Bond story "Thunderball."
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British film industry ⓘ |
| citizenship | British ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
drama films
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war films ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing British drama films
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editing major British war films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notability | mid-20th-century British cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Angry Silence
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire ⓘ
linked to:
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961 film)
The Guns of Navarone ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workType | feature films ⓘ |
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: Alan Osbiston Description of subject: Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.