Richard Kelly
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Richard Kelly is an American filmmaker best known for writing and directing the cult psychological sci-fi film "Donnie Darko."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Kelly canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13481128 — 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: Richard Kelly Context triple: [Donnie Darko, director, Richard Kelly]
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A.
José Padilha
José Padilha is a Brazilian filmmaker best known internationally for directing the "Elite Squad" films and the 2014 "RoboCop" remake, as well as producing and directing episodes of the crime drama series "Narcos."
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B.
Alan Burgess
Alan Burgess was a British author and screenwriter best known for writing the book that inspired the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."
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C.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
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D.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
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E.
John Singleton
John Singleton was an influential American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for groundbreaking works that explored African American life and urban realities, including his acclaimed debut "Boyz n the Hood."
- 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: Richard Kelly Target entity description: Richard Kelly is an American filmmaker best known for writing and directing the cult psychological sci-fi film "Donnie Darko."
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A.
José Padilha
José Padilha is a Brazilian filmmaker best known internationally for directing the "Elite Squad" films and the 2014 "RoboCop" remake, as well as producing and directing episodes of the crime drama series "Narcos."
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B.
Alan Burgess
Alan Burgess was a British author and screenwriter best known for writing the book that inspired the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."
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C.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
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D.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
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E.
John Singleton
John Singleton was an influential American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for groundbreaking works that explored African American life and urban realities, including his acclaimed debut "Boyz n the Hood."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-03-28 ⓘ |
| directed |
Donnie Darko
NERFINISHED
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Southland Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Box NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
USC School of Cinematic Arts
NERFINISHED
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
filmmaking
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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psychological science fiction film ⓘ psychological thriller film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ science fiction thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowingFor | Donnie Darko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Donnie Darko
NERFINISHED
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Southland Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Box NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newport News, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Donnie Darko
NERFINISHED
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Southland Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Box NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Richard Kelly Description of subject: Richard Kelly is an American filmmaker best known for writing and directing the cult psychological sci-fi film "Donnie Darko."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.