Stephen Woolley
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Stephen Woolley is a British film producer and director best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including collaborations with director Neil Jordan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Woolley canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531514 — 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: Stephen Woolley Context triple: [The Crying Game, producer, Stephen Woolley]
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A.
David Wardle
David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
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B.
Robert Hinde
Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
John Worsfold
John Worsfold is a former Australian rules footballer and premiership-winning coach best known for leading the West Coast Eagles in the AFL.
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E.
Richard Woolley
Richard Woolley was a prominent British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal in the mid-20th century, overseeing major developments in UK observational astronomy.
- 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: Stephen Woolley Target entity description: Stephen Woolley is a British film producer and director best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including collaborations with director Neil Jordan.
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A.
David Wardle
David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
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B.
Robert Hinde
Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
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C.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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D.
John Worsfold
John Worsfold is a former Australian rules footballer and premiership-winning coach best known for leading the West Coast Eagles in the AFL.
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E.
Richard Woolley
Richard Woolley was a prominent British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal in the mid-20th century, overseeing major developments in UK observational astronomy.
- 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: Stephen Woolley Description of subject: Stephen Woolley is a British film producer and director best known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including collaborations with director Neil Jordan.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The End of the Affair
subject linked to:
Michael Collins
subject linked to:
Great Expectations