Mike Figgis
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Mike Figgis is a British film director, screenwriter, and composer best known for his innovative, often experimental work in cinema, including the acclaimed film "Leaving Las Vegas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Figgis canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10118597 — 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: Mike Figgis Context triple: [The Battle of Orgreave, documentedBy, Mike Figgis]
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A.
Alex Gifford
Alex Gifford is a British musician and record producer best known as a member of the electronic music group Propellerheads.
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B.
Thomas Eyre
Thomas Eyre is a relatively obscure historical figure whose specific identity and achievements are not clearly distinguished in common reference sources.
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C.
Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears is a British film director known for acclaimed works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "High Fidelity," and "Philomena."
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D.
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry is an acclaimed British theatre and film director and producer known for works such as "Billy Elliot," "The Hours," and "The Reader."
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E.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker is a British composer and guitarist known for his prolific session work and film and television scores.
- 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: Mike Figgis Target entity description: Mike Figgis is a British film director, screenwriter, and composer best known for his innovative, often experimental work in cinema, including the acclaimed film "Leaving Las Vegas."
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A.
Alex Gifford
Alex Gifford is a British musician and record producer best known as a member of the electronic music group Propellerheads.
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B.
Thomas Eyre
Thomas Eyre is a relatively obscure historical figure whose specific identity and achievements are not clearly distinguished in common reference sources.
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C.
Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears is a British film director known for acclaimed works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "High Fidelity," and "Philomena."
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D.
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry is an acclaimed British theatre and film director and producer known for works such as "Billy Elliot," "The Hours," and "The Reader."
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E.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker is a British composer and guitarist known for his prolific session work and film and television scores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Mike Figgis Description of subject: Mike Figgis is a British film director, screenwriter, and composer best known for his innovative, often experimental work in cinema, including the acclaimed film "Leaving Las Vegas."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.