Sam Peckinpah
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Sam Peckinpah was an influential American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and stylized, often violent portrayals of masculinity and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Peckinpah canonical | 28 |
| David Samuel Peckinpah | 1 |
| Peckinpah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T991594 — 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: Sam Peckinpah Context triple: [Knockin' on Heaven's Door, filmDirectorOfAssociatedFilm, Sam Peckinpah]
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A.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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B.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for pioneering the Spaghetti Western genre with stylistically innovative films such as the "Dollars Trilogy" and "Once Upon a Time in the West."
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
- 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: Sam Peckinpah Target entity description: Sam Peckinpah was an influential American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and stylized, often violent portrayals of masculinity and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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B.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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C.
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for pioneering the Spaghetti Western genre with stylistically innovative films such as the "Dollars Trilogy" and "Once Upon a Time in the West."
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D.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
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E.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Sam Peckinpah Description of subject: Sam Peckinpah was an influential American film director known for his revisionist Westerns and stylized, often violent portrayals of masculinity and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Samuel Peckinpah
this entity surface form:
Peckinpah
subject surface form:
The Osterman Weekend