Paul Brickman
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Paul Brickman is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 1983 coming-of-age film "Risky Business."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Brickman canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301005 — 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 Brickman Context triple: [Risky Business, director, Paul Brickman]
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A.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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B.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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C.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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D.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- 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 Brickman Target entity description: Paul Brickman is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 1983 coming-of-age film "Risky Business."
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A.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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B.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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C.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
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D.
George Zames
George Zames was a prominent control theorist known for his foundational contributions to robust control and H-infinity methods in systems engineering.
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coming-of-age film
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField | film industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Risky Business ⓘ |
| director | Paul Brickman ⓘ |
| genre | coming-of-age film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing and directing the 1983 film "Risky Business" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Risky Business ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Brickman ⓘ |
| wrote | Risky Business ⓘ |
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 Brickman Description of subject: Paul Brickman is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 1983 coming-of-age film "Risky Business."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.