Jack Sholder
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Jack Sholder is an American film director best known for his work in 1980s genre cinema, including the horror sequel "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Sholder canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11680483 — 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: Jack Sholder Context triple: [The Hidden, director, Jack Sholder]
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A.
Walter Hill
Walter Hill is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his gritty action movies such as "The Warriors," "48 Hrs.," and "Southern Comfort."
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B.
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams is an American filmmaker known for directing and often writing and shooting genre films such as science fiction thrillers and action movies.
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C.
Christopher Landon
Christopher Landon is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on the "Paranormal Activity" series and the "Happy Death Day" films.
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D.
Dave Cockrum
Dave Cockrum was an influential American comic book artist and designer best known for co-creating many of the modern X-Men characters and revitalizing the series in the 1970s.
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E.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
- 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: Jack Sholder Target entity description: Jack Sholder is an American film director best known for his work in 1980s genre cinema, including the horror sequel "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge."
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A.
Walter Hill
Walter Hill is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his gritty action movies such as "The Warriors," "48 Hrs.," and "Southern Comfort."
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B.
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams is an American filmmaker known for directing and often writing and shooting genre films such as science fiction thrillers and action movies.
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C.
Christopher Landon
Christopher Landon is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on the "Paranormal Activity" series and the "Happy Death Day" films.
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D.
Dave Cockrum
Dave Cockrum was an influential American comic book artist and designer best known for co-creating many of the modern X-Men characters and revitalizing the series in the 1970s.
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E.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Jack Sholder Description of subject: Jack Sholder is an American film director best known for his work in 1980s genre cinema, including the horror sequel "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.