Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker known for his gritty, provocative crime dramas and cult classics such as "Bad Lieutenant" and "King of New York."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abel Ferrara canonical | 17 |
| Abel Ferrara filmography | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3679605 — 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: Abel Ferrara Context triple: [Harvey Keitel, workedWith, Abel Ferrara]
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A.
Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé is an Argentine-French filmmaker known for his provocative, visually experimental, and psychologically intense films such as "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void."
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B.
Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his intense, psychologically driven dramas and frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
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C.
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes was an influential American independent filmmaker and actor, renowned for his raw, improvisational style and pioneering role in modern character-driven cinema.
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D.
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter known for his offbeat, character-driven dramas and romantic films, often blending ensemble casts with stylized, atmospheric storytelling.
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E.
Vincenzo Natali
Vincenzo Natali is a Canadian filmmaker best known for directing the cult science fiction horror film "Cube" and other visually inventive genre movies.
- 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: Abel Ferrara Target entity description: Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker known for his gritty, provocative crime dramas and cult classics such as "Bad Lieutenant" and "King of New York."
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A.
Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé is an Argentine-French filmmaker known for his provocative, visually experimental, and psychologically intense films such as "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void."
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B.
Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his intense, psychologically driven dramas and frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
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C.
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes was an influential American independent filmmaker and actor, renowned for his raw, improvisational style and pioneering role in modern character-driven cinema.
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D.
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter known for his offbeat, character-driven dramas and romantic films, often blending ensemble casts with stylized, atmospheric storytelling.
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E.
Vincenzo Natali
Vincenzo Natali is a Canadian filmmaker best known for directing the cult science fiction horror film "Cube" and other visually inventive genre movies.
- 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: Abel Ferrara Description of subject: Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker known for his gritty, provocative crime dramas and cult classics such as "Bad Lieutenant" and "King of New York."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Frank White (character from the film King of New York)
subject linked to:
Frank White (character from the film King of New York)
linked to: Abel Ferrara
linked to: Abel Ferrara