John Maclean
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John Maclean is a Scottish filmmaker and former musician best known for writing and directing the acclaimed 2015 western film "Slow West."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Maclean canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066013 — 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: John Maclean Context triple: [Slow West, director, John Maclean]
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A.
Donald MacLean
Donald MacLean is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward best known for his prolific scoring in the minor leagues and brief stints in the NHL.
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B.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet and literary figure of the early 19th century, best known for works like "The Pleasures of Hope" and for his influential role in British literary culture.
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C.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
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D.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an Irish socialist leader and revolutionary who played a key role in the 1916 Easter Rising and was executed for his involvement.
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E.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
- 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: John Maclean Target entity description: John Maclean is a Scottish filmmaker and former musician best known for writing and directing the acclaimed 2015 western film "Slow West."
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A.
Donald MacLean
Donald MacLean is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward best known for his prolific scoring in the minor leagues and brief stints in the NHL.
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B.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet and literary figure of the early 19th century, best known for works like "The Pleasures of Hope" and for his influential role in British literary culture.
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C.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
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D.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an Irish socialist leader and revolutionary who played a key role in the 1916 Easter Rising and was executed for his involvement.
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E.
James Connolly
James Connolly was an American athlete and scholar best known as the first Olympic champion of the modern era, winning the triple jump at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
ⓘ
film ⓘ film director ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ musician ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField | independent film ⓘ |
| award | World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival ⓘ |
| basedIn | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
New Zealand
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed | Slow West ⓘ |
| director | John Maclean ⓘ |
| formerMemberOf |
The Aliens
ⓘ
The Beta Band ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
Western film ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
ⓘ
sampler ⓘ |
| knownFor | Slow West ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableAward | World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival (for Slow West) ⓘ |
| notableWork | Slow West ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
musician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Maclean ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Mendelsohn
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Kodi Smit-McPhee ⓘ Michael Fassbender ⓘ |
| wrote | Slow West ⓘ |
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: John Maclean Description of subject: John Maclean is a Scottish filmmaker and former musician best known for writing and directing the acclaimed 2015 western film "Slow West."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.