Jan Kiesser
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Jan Kiesser is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on genre films and television, including the 1985 horror film "Fright Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Kiesser canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142484 — 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: Jan Kiesser Context triple: [Fright Night (1985 film), cinematographyBy, Jan Kiesser]
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A.
Jens Schlosser
Jens Schlosser is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Salvation."
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B.
Martin Fischer
Martin Fischer is a personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, such as sports, science, and the arts.
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C.
Erik Heinrichs
Erik Heinrichs was a Finnish general and senior military leader who played a key role in directing Finland’s armed forces during World War II.
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D.
Daniel Knauf
Daniel Knauf is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the HBO series "Carnivàle."
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E.
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is the husband of American author Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight series.
- 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: Jan Kiesser Target entity description: Jan Kiesser is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on genre films and television, including the 1985 horror film "Fright Night."
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A.
Jens Schlosser
Jens Schlosser is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Salvation."
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B.
Martin Fischer
Martin Fischer is a personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, such as sports, science, and the arts.
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C.
Erik Heinrichs
Erik Heinrichs was a Finnish general and senior military leader who played a key role in directing Finland’s armed forces during World War II.
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D.
Daniel Knauf
Daniel Knauf is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the HBO series "Carnivàle."
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E.
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is the husband of American author Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
genre films
ⓘ
television cinematography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fright Night
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linked to:
Fright Night (1985 film)
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| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Fright Night
ⓘ
linked to:
Fright Night (1985 film)
|
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: Jan Kiesser Description of subject: Jan Kiesser is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on genre films and television, including the 1985 horror film "Fright Night."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.