Syncopy
E4056
Syncopy is a British film production company founded by director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas, known for backing many of Nolan’s major films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Syncopy canonical | 10 |
| Syncopy Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T57229 — 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: Syncopy Context triple: [Oppenheimer (2023 film), productionCompany, Syncopy]
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A.
harmonic analyzer
A harmonic analyzer is a mechanical or electrical device used to decompose complex periodic signals into their constituent sinusoidal components for analysis.
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B.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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C.
Metro
Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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Station HYPO
Station HYPO was a U.S. Navy signals intelligence and cryptanalysis unit in Hawaii that played a crucial role in breaking Japanese naval codes and enabling the American victory at the Battle of Midway.
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E.
DCA
DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
- 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: Syncopy Target entity description: Syncopy is a British film production company founded by director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas, known for backing many of Nolan’s major films.
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A.
harmonic analyzer
A harmonic analyzer is a mechanical or electrical device used to decompose complex periodic signals into their constituent sinusoidal components for analysis.
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B.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
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C.
Metro
Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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D.
Station HYPO
Station HYPO was a U.S. Navy signals intelligence and cryptanalysis unit in Hawaii that played a crucial role in breaking Japanese naval codes and enabling the American victory at the Battle of Midway.
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E.
DCA
DCA is the three-letter IATA airport code for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the primary domestic airport serving Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
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film production company ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
blockbuster cinema
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science fiction films ⓘ thriller films ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Legendary Pictures
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Universal Pictures ⓘ Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Christopher Nolan
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Emma Thomas ⓘ |
| foundedByOccupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ |
| industry | film production ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Christopher Nolan
ⓘ
Emma Thomas ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing Christopher Nolan films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dunkirk
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Inception ⓘ Interstellar ⓘ Oppenheimer ⓘ
linked to:
Oppenheimer (2023 film)
Tenet ⓘ |
| produced |
Dunkirk
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Inception ⓘ Interstellar ⓘ Oppenheimer ⓘ
linked to:
Oppenheimer (2023 film)
Tenet ⓘ The Dark Knight ⓘ The Dark Knight Rises ⓘ |
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: Syncopy Description of subject: Syncopy is a British film production company founded by director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas, known for backing many of Nolan’s major films.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.