James Lees
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James Lees is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and rock videos, including OneRepublic’s hit song "Counting Stars."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Lees canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7814033 — 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: James Lees Context triple: [Counting Stars, musicVideoDirector, James Lees]
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A.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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B.
Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
Edward Hume
Edward Hume was an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular crime and drama series in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
John Ferriter
John Ferriter was an American television producer and talent agent known for his influential work in late-night TV and reality programming.
- 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: James Lees Target entity description: James Lees is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and rock videos, including OneRepublic’s hit song "Counting Stars."
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A.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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B.
Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
Edward Hume
Edward Hume was an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular crime and drama series in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
John Ferriter
John Ferriter was an American television producer and talent agent known for his influential work in late-night TV and reality programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | music video director ⓘ |
| directedMusicVideoFor |
OneRepublic – Counting Stars
ⓘ
linked to:
Counting Stars
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| fieldOfWork | music video direction ⓘ |
| genreSpecialty |
pop music videos
ⓘ
rock music videos ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing high-profile pop music videos
ⓘ
directing high-profile rock music videos ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Counting Stars (music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Counting Stars
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| occupation | music video director ⓘ |
| workedWithArtist | OneRepublic ⓘ |
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: James Lees Description of subject: James Lees is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and rock videos, including OneRepublic’s hit song "Counting Stars."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.