Baltasar Kormákur
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Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic film director, producer, and actor known for both his domestic hits and Hollywood thrillers such as "Contraband" and "Everest."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baltasar Kormákur canonical | 11 |
| Kormákur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6954978 — 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: Baltasar Kormákur Context triple: [Contraband, director, Baltasar Kormákur]
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A.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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B.
Morten Tyldum
Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director best known internationally for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Imitation Game."
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C.
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer is a German quantum chemist and professor known both for his research in theoretical chemistry and for being married to former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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D.
Daniel Alfredson
Daniel Alfredson is a Swedish film director and screenwriter best known for directing adaptations in the Millennium crime novel series, including "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."
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E.
Hans Alfredson
Hans Alfredson was a renowned Swedish comedian, actor, writer, and director, best known as one half of the influential comedy duo Hasse & Tage.
- 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: Baltasar Kormákur Target entity description: Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic film director, producer, and actor known for both his domestic hits and Hollywood thrillers such as "Contraband" and "Everest."
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A.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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B.
Morten Tyldum
Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director best known internationally for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Imitation Game."
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C.
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer is a German quantum chemist and professor known both for his research in theoretical chemistry and for being married to former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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D.
Daniel Alfredson
Daniel Alfredson is a Swedish film director and screenwriter best known for directing adaptations in the Millennium crime novel series, including "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."
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E.
Hans Alfredson
Hans Alfredson was a renowned Swedish comedian, actor, writer, and director, best known as one half of the influential comedy duo Hasse & Tage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| actedIn | 101 Reykjavík ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Iceland ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1966-02-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Reykjavík
ⓘ
linked to:
Reykjavík, Iceland
|
| citizenship | Iceland ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
Iceland
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| directed |
101 Reykjavík
ⓘ
2 Guns ⓘ Adrift ⓘ Contraband ⓘ Everest ⓘ Jar City ⓘ The Sea ⓘ Trapped ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kormákur
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltasar Kormákur
|
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Baltasar ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Hollywood thrillers
ⓘ
Icelandic cinema ⓘ |
| language | Icelandic ⓘ |
| name | Baltasar Kormákur ⓘ |
| nationality | Icelandic ⓘ |
| notableWork |
101 Reykjavík
ⓘ
2 Guns ⓘ Adrift ⓘ Contraband ⓘ Everest ⓘ Jar City ⓘ The Sea ⓘ Trapped ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
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: Baltasar Kormákur Description of subject: Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic film director, producer, and actor known for both his domestic hits and Hollywood thrillers such as "Contraband" and "Everest."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Baltasar Kormákur
subject linked to:
Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam
subject linked to:
Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam
subject linked to:
Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam
subject linked to:
Free State Pictures