Steve McQueen
E62108
Academy Award winner
contemporary artist
film director
film producer
human
screenwriter
video artist
visual artist
Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his influential work in contemporary art and cinema.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve McQueen canonical | 81 |
| Terrence Stephen McQueen | 2 |
| Steve McQueen (British film director) | 1 |
| Steve McQueen (film director) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499018 — 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: Steve McQueen Context triple: [Iain Canning, collaboratedWith, Steve McQueen]
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A.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
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B.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino is an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, charismatic performances in classic films such as The Godfather series, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman.
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C.
Robert Blake
Robert Blake was a prominent 17th-century English naval commander who helped establish the foundations of British naval supremacy, particularly through his leadership in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
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D.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper was an influential American actor and filmmaker best known for co-writing, directing, and starring in the landmark countercultural film "Easy Rider."
- 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: Steve McQueen Target entity description: Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his influential work in contemporary art and cinema.
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A.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
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B.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino is an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, charismatic performances in classic films such as The Godfather series, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman.
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C.
Robert Blake
Robert Blake was a prominent 17th-century English naval commander who helped establish the foundations of British naval supremacy, particularly through his leadership in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
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D.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper was an influential American actor and filmmaker best known for co-writing, directing, and starring in the landmark countercultural film "Easy Rider."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Steve McQueen Description of subject: Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his influential work in contemporary art and cinema.
Referenced by (85)
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