Steven Zaillian
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Steven Zaillian is an acclaimed American screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing award-winning films such as Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steven Zaillian canonical | 23 |
| Steve Zaillian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523981 — 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: Steven Zaillian Context triple: [American Gangster, screenwriter, Steven Zaillian]
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is an acclaimed American filmmaker known for his influential, character-driven crime dramas and explorations of morality, violence, and identity in films such as "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," and "Goodfellas."
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet was an acclaimed American film director known for socially conscious, character-driven dramas such as "12 Angry Men," "Serpico," and "Dog Day Afternoon."
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Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor known for influential and often controversial films such as "Rosemary’s Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," as well as for his highly publicized legal troubles.
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols was an acclaimed American film and theater director known for influential works like "The Graduate" and his sharp, character-driven storytelling that helped define a generation of cinema.
- 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: Steven Zaillian Target entity description: Steven Zaillian is an acclaimed American screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing award-winning films such as Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman.
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A.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is an acclaimed American filmmaker known for his influential, character-driven crime dramas and explorations of morality, violence, and identity in films such as "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," and "Goodfellas."
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B.
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet was an acclaimed American film director known for socially conscious, character-driven dramas such as "12 Angry Men," "Serpico," and "Dog Day Afternoon."
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C.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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D.
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor known for influential and often controversial films such as "Rosemary’s Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," as well as for his highly publicized legal troubles.
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E.
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols was an acclaimed American film and theater director known for influential works like "The Graduate" and his sharp, character-driven storytelling that helped define a generation of cinema.
- 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: Steven Zaillian Description of subject: Steven Zaillian is an acclaimed American screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing award-winning films such as Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, and The Irishman.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steven Zaillian
subject linked to:
A Civil Action
subject linked to:
All the King's Men
subject linked to:
All the King's Men
subject linked to:
All the King's Men
subject linked to:
character Richie Roberts in the film "American Gangster"