Michael Seresin
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Michael Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer and film director known for his visually striking work on major films such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Seresin canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4101039 — 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: Michael Seresin Context triple: [Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, cinematographyBy, Michael Seresin]
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Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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B.
Michael Gruskoff
Michael Gruskoff is an American film producer best known for his work on influential 1970s and 1980s films, including the cult science fiction movie "Silent Running."
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Mike Sokolsky
Mike Sokolsky is a co-founder of the online education platform Udacity, known for its technology-focused courses and nanodegree programs.
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D.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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E.
Alec Miloslavsky
Alec Miloslavsky is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
- 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: Michael Seresin Target entity description: Michael Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer and film director known for his visually striking work on major films such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
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A.
Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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B.
Michael Gruskoff
Michael Gruskoff is an American film producer best known for his work on influential 1970s and 1980s films, including the cult science fiction movie "Silent Running."
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C.
Mike Sokolsky
Mike Sokolsky is a co-founder of the online education platform Udacity, known for its technology-focused courses and nanodegree programs.
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D.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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E.
Alec Miloslavsky
Alec Miloslavsky is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Michael Seresin Description of subject: Michael Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer and film director known for his visually striking work on major films such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.