Paul Mazursky
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Paul Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor known for his sharp, character-driven social comedies and satires in the 1960s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Mazursky canonical | 34 |
| Irwin Lawrence Mazursky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2747120 — 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: Paul Mazursky Context triple: [Down and Out in Beverly Hills, director, Paul Mazursky]
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A.
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.
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B.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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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.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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E.
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."
- 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: Paul Mazursky Target entity description: Paul Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor known for his sharp, character-driven social comedies and satires in the 1960s through the 1980s.
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A.
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.
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B.
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor of the New Hollywood era, known for acclaimed, offbeat classics such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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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.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Paul Mazursky Description of subject: Paul Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor known for his sharp, character-driven social comedies and satires in the 1960s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paul Mazursky