Kevin Yagher
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Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Yagher canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110081 — 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: Kevin Yagher Context triple: [Sleepy Hollow (1999 film), screenwriter, Kevin Yagher]
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A.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Matthew Kirk
Matthew Kirk is a notable individual who shares the surname Kirk, recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished among others with the same name.
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E.
Michael Larsen
Michael Larsen is the person credited with coining the now-popular term “Painted Ladies” to describe the colorfully restored Victorian and Edwardian houses of San Francisco.
- 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: Kevin Yagher Target entity description: Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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A.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Matthew Kirk
Matthew Kirk is a notable individual who shares the surname Kirk, recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished among others with the same name.
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E.
Michael Larsen
Michael Larsen is the person credited with coining the now-popular term “Painted Ladies” to describe the colorfully restored Victorian and Edwardian houses of San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Kevin Yagher Description of subject: Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.