Michael Tiddes
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Michael Tiddes is an American film director best known for helming parody and comedy films such as the spoof horror movie "A Haunted House."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Tiddes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9790305 — 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: Michael Tiddes Context triple: [A Haunted House, director, Michael Tiddes]
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A.
Paul Sidwell
Paul Sidwell is a linguist specializing in the historical and comparative study of Austroasiatic languages, particularly known for his reconstruction work on the Palaungic branch.
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B.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
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C.
Greg Mathieson
Greg Mathieson is an American keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his work in jazz, fusion, and pop music, collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
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D.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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E.
Michael Wetherall
Michael Wetherall is a central character in John Stephens' fantasy series "The Books of Beginning," playing a key role in the magical adventures that drive the story.
- 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: Michael Tiddes Target entity description: Michael Tiddes is an American film director best known for helming parody and comedy films such as the spoof horror movie "A Haunted House."
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A.
Paul Sidwell
Paul Sidwell is a linguist specializing in the historical and comparative study of Austroasiatic languages, particularly known for his reconstruction work on the Palaungic branch.
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B.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
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C.
Greg Mathieson
Greg Mathieson is an American keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his work in jazz, fusion, and pop music, collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
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D.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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E.
Michael Wetherall
Michael Wetherall is a central character in John Stephens' fantasy series "The Books of Beginning," playing a key role in the magical adventures that drive the story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
A Haunted House
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A Haunted House 2 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy cinema
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film direction ⓘ parody cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy horror film ⓘ comedy horror film ⓘ parody film ⓘ parody film ⓘ parody film ⓘ spoof film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with Marlon Wayans
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directing spoof horror-comedy films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Haunted House
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A Haunted House 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Michael Tiddes Description of subject: Michael Tiddes is an American film director best known for helming parody and comedy films such as the spoof horror movie "A Haunted House."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.