Philip Tannura
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Philip Tannura was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Tannura canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11009031 — 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: Philip Tannura Context triple: [You'll Never Get Rich, cinematographyBy, Philip Tannura]
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A.
Philip Gunawardena
Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
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B.
Julian Arahanga
Julian Arahanga is a New Zealand actor best known internationally for his roles in the film "Once Were Warriors" and as Apoc in "The Matrix."
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C.
Anil Tissera
Anil Tissera is a Sri Lankan-born forensic anthropologist and the protagonist of Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Anil’s Ghost," who returns to her homeland to investigate political violence and human rights abuses.
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D.
William Gopallawa
William Gopallawa was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the country’s last Governor-General and later as its first non-executive President during the transition from dominion to republic.
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E.
Menik Vehera
Menik Vehera is a ruined Buddhist monastery complex in the ancient Sri Lankan city of Polonnaruwa, notable for its brick stupa and surrounding monastic structures.
- 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: Philip Tannura Target entity description: Philip Tannura was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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A.
Philip Gunawardena
Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
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B.
Julian Arahanga
Julian Arahanga is a New Zealand actor best known internationally for his roles in the film "Once Were Warriors" and as Apoc in "The Matrix."
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C.
Anil Tissera
Anil Tissera is a Sri Lankan-born forensic anthropologist and the protagonist of Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Anil’s Ghost," who returns to her homeland to investigate political violence and human rights abuses.
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D.
William Gopallawa
William Gopallawa was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the country’s last Governor-General and later as its first non-executive President during the transition from dominion to republic.
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E.
Menik Vehera
Menik Vehera is a ruined Buddhist monastery complex in the ancient Sri Lankan city of Polonnaruwa, notable for its brick stupa and surrounding monastic structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1950s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | Hollywood film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Philip Tannura Description of subject: Philip Tannura was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.