Simon Curtis
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Simon Curtis is a British film and television director known for character-driven dramas such as "My Week with Marilyn" and "Woman in Gold."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Curtis canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352725 — 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: Simon Curtis Context triple: [My Week with Marilyn, director, Simon Curtis]
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A.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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B.
Oliver Parker
Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
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C.
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom is a prolific and versatile British film director known for politically engaged dramas and innovative, genre-spanning works such as "24 Hour Party People," "The Road to Guantánamo," and "A Mighty Heart."
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D.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes is an acclaimed British film and theatre director known for works such as "American Beauty," the James Bond films "Skyfall" and "Spectre," and the World War I epic "1917."
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E.
Mike Donovan
Mike Donovan is a recurring human character in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known as a field tester and troubleshooter who works closely with experimental robots.
- 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: Simon Curtis Target entity description: Simon Curtis is a British film and television director known for character-driven dramas such as "My Week with Marilyn" and "Woman in Gold."
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A.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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B.
Oliver Parker
Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
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C.
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom is a prolific and versatile British film director known for politically engaged dramas and innovative, genre-spanning works such as "24 Hour Party People," "The Road to Guantánamo," and "A Mighty Heart."
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D.
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes is an acclaimed British film and theatre director known for works such as "American Beauty," the James Bond films "Skyfall" and "Spectre," and the World War I epic "1917."
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E.
Mike Donovan
Mike Donovan is a recurring human character in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known as a field tester and troubleshooter who works closely with experimental robots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
A Short Stay in Switzerland
ⓘ
Cranford ⓘ David Copperfield (1999 TV film) ⓘ Downton Abbey: A New Era ⓘ Goodbye Christopher Robin ⓘ My Week with Marilyn ⓘ
linked to:
My Week with Marilyn (2011 film)
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky ⓘ Woman in Gold ⓘ |
| director | Simon Curtis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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television direction ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
My Week with Marilyn
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linked to:
My Week with Marilyn (2011 film)
Woman in Gold ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth McGovern ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Simon Curtis Description of subject: Simon Curtis is a British film and television director known for character-driven dramas such as "My Week with Marilyn" and "Woman in Gold."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
My Week with Marilyn (2011 film)
subject linked to:
Simon Curtis
subject linked to:
White Heat (TV series)