Mark Fergus
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Mark Fergus is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Children of Men" and "Iron Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Fergus canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644761 — 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 Fergus Context triple: [Children of Men, screenwriter, Mark Fergus]
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A.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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B.
Scott Z. Burns
Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for socially conscious films such as Contagion, The Informant!, and The Report.
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C.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
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D.
John August
John August is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on films such as "Big Fish," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and "Frankenweenie."
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E.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
- 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 Fergus Target entity description: Mark Fergus is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Children of Men" and "Iron Man."
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A.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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B.
Scott Z. Burns
Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for socially conscious films such as Contagion, The Informant!, and The Report.
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C.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
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D.
John August
John August is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on films such as "Big Fish," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and "Frankenweenie."
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E.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director
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filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkOf |
Children of Men by P. D. James
ⓘ
linked to:
Children of Men
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| coCreated |
The Expanse (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Expanse
|
| coDeveloped |
The Expanse (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Expanse
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Children of Men
ⓘ
Children of Men (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Children of Men
Cowboys & Aliens ⓘ First Snow ⓘ Iron Man ⓘ Iron Man (screenplay) ⓘ
linked to:
Iron Man
The Expanse (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Expanse
|
| fieldOfWork |
film production
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating The Expanse (TV series)
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co-writing Children of Men ⓘ co-writing Iron Man ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Children of Men ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Children of Men
ⓘ
Iron Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Children of Men
ⓘ
Cowboys & Aliens ⓘ First Snow ⓘ Iron Man ⓘ The Expanse (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Expanse
|
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 Fergus Description of subject: Mark Fergus is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Children of Men" and "Iron Man."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.