Ken Kobland
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Ken Kobland is an American filmmaker and video artist known for his long-standing work with experimental theater and performance groups such as The Wooster Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Kobland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9396928 — 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: Ken Kobland Context triple: [Elizabeth LeCompte, hasCollaboratedWith, Ken Kobland]
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A.
Peter Bohlin
Peter Bohlin is an American architect renowned for his humanistic, context-sensitive designs and as a founding partner of the acclaimed firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, known for projects such as Apple’s iconic retail stores.
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B.
Michael B. Olbrich
Michael B. Olbrich was an American lawyer and conservationist best known for his role in creating public green spaces in Madison, Wisconsin, including the botanical gardens that bear his name.
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C.
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect renowned for innovative urban park and public space designs, including projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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D.
Kevin Gilbert
Kevin Gilbert was an influential Aboriginal Australian writer, artist, and activist known for his pioneering work in Indigenous rights and literature.
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E.
Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and chiral catalyst design.
- 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: Ken Kobland Target entity description: Ken Kobland is an American filmmaker and video artist known for his long-standing work with experimental theater and performance groups such as The Wooster Group.
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A.
Peter Bohlin
Peter Bohlin is an American architect renowned for his humanistic, context-sensitive designs and as a founding partner of the acclaimed firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, known for projects such as Apple’s iconic retail stores.
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B.
Michael B. Olbrich
Michael B. Olbrich was an American lawyer and conservationist best known for his role in creating public green spaces in Madison, Wisconsin, including the botanical gardens that bear his name.
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C.
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect renowned for innovative urban park and public space designs, including projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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D.
Kevin Gilbert
Kevin Gilbert was an influential Aboriginal Australian writer, artist, and activist known for his pioneering work in Indigenous rights and literature.
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E.
Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and chiral catalyst design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
filmmaker
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person ⓘ video artist ⓘ |
| activity |
creating video designs for theater productions
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directing experimental films ⓘ |
| artForm |
film
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performance-related media ⓘ video ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
experimental film
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experimental theater ⓘ video art ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde cinema
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experimental film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
experimental film and video work
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long-standing collaboration with The Wooster Group ⓘ work with performance groups ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | video artist for The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| occupation |
filmmaker
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video artist ⓘ |
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: Ken Kobland Description of subject: Ken Kobland is an American filmmaker and video artist known for his long-standing work with experimental theater and performance groups such as The Wooster Group.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.