Amos Vogel
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Amos Vogel was an influential Austrian-American film curator and critic best known for championing avant-garde and independent cinema and co-founding the New York Film Festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amos Vogel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3266575 — 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: Amos Vogel Context triple: [New York Film Festival, foundedBy, Amos Vogel]
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A.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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B.
Ralph Rosenblum
Ralph Rosenblum was an American film editor best known for his influential work on landmark comedies and dramas, including several early Woody Allen films.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Robert Nathan
Robert Nathan was an American novelist and poet best known for his romantic and fantasy fiction, including the story that inspired the film "The Bishop's Wife."
- 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: Amos Vogel Target entity description: Amos Vogel was an influential Austrian-American film curator and critic best known for championing avant-garde and independent cinema and co-founding the New York Film Festival.
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A.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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B.
Ralph Rosenblum
Ralph Rosenblum was an American film editor best known for his influential work on landmark comedies and dramas, including several early Woody Allen films.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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E.
Robert Nathan
Robert Nathan was an American novelist and poet best known for his romantic and fantasy fiction, including the story that inspired the film "The Bishop's Wife."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
film critic ⓘ film curator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Special Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association ⓘ |
| birthName | Amos Vogelbaum ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Lincoln Center Film Department
ⓘ
New York Film Festival ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-04-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
City College of New York
ⓘ
The New School ⓘ |
| employer |
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
ⓘ
University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film curation
ⓘ
film education ⓘ film history ⓘ |
| fledFrom |
Nazi Austria
ⓘ
linked to:
Anschluss-era Austria
|
| founded | Cinema 16 ⓘ |
| genre |
film criticism
ⓘ
film theory ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| influenced |
New American Cinema movement
ⓘ
linked to:
New American Cinema
U.S. film festival programming practices ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde cinema
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| name | Amos Vogel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
championing avant-garde cinema
ⓘ
co-founding the New York Film Festival ⓘ promoting independent film ⓘ running the Cinema 16 film society ⓘ |
| notableWork | Film as a Subversive Art ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
film critic ⓘ film curator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder and director of Cinema 16
ⓘ
programming director of the New York Film Festival ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Philadelphia ⓘ |
| spouse | Marcia Vogel ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Amos Vogel Description of subject: Amos Vogel was an influential Austrian-American film curator and critic best known for championing avant-garde and independent cinema and co-founding the New York Film Festival.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.