Jon Amiel
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Jon Amiel is a British film and television director known for works such as "The Singing Detective," "Copycat," and "Entrapment."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jon Amiel canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016695 — 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: Jon Amiel Context triple: [The Singing Detective, director, Jon Amiel]
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A.
Bart Freundlich
Bart Freundlich is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for independent dramas and for his long-term collaboration and marriage with actress Julianne Moore.
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B.
John Hyams
John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
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C.
Jeannot Szwarc
Jeannot Szwarc is a French-American film and television director best known for helming major genre projects such as "Jaws 2," "Somewhere in Time," and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
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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.
Matthew Libatique
Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky on films such as "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan."
- 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: Jon Amiel Target entity description: Jon Amiel is a British film and television director known for works such as "The Singing Detective," "Copycat," and "Entrapment."
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A.
Bart Freundlich
Bart Freundlich is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for independent dramas and for his long-term collaboration and marriage with actress Julianne Moore.
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B.
John Hyams
John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
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C.
Jeannot Szwarc
Jeannot Szwarc is a French-American film and television director best known for helming major genre projects such as "Jaws 2," "Somewhere in Time," and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
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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.
Matthew Libatique
Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer known for his dynamic visual style and frequent collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky on films such as "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Copycat
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Creation ⓘ Entrapment ⓘ Queen of Hearts ⓘ Sommersby ⓘ The Core ⓘ The Man Who Knew Too Little ⓘ The Singing Detective ⓘ The Singing Detective (TV serial) ⓘ
linked to:
The Singing Detective
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| familyName | Amiel ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkDirected |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ television drama ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing complex thrillers
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directing television drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jon Amiel ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Copycat
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Entrapment ⓘ The Singing Detective ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
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: Jon Amiel Description of subject: Jon Amiel is a British film and television director known for works such as "The Singing Detective," "Copycat," and "Entrapment."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Copycat"
subject linked to:
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Virginia Gin Baker
subject linked to:
Detective Quinn in Copycat