Jeannot Szwarc
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Jeannot Szwarc is a French-American film and television director best known for helming major genre projects such as "Jaws 2," "Somewhere in Time," and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeannot Szwarc canonical | 7 |
| Szwarc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995332 — 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: Jeannot Szwarc Context triple: [Jaws 2, director, Jeannot Szwarc]
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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C.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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D.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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E.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
- 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: Jeannot Szwarc Target entity description: Jeannot Szwarc is a French-American film and television director best known for helming major genre projects such as "Jaws 2," "Somewhere in Time," and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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C.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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D.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "Diner," and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
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E.
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 1968 musical fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-American person
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| birthName | Jeannot Szwarc self-link ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-11-21 ⓘ |
| directed |
Bug
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Enigma ⓘ Jaws 2 ⓘ Santa Claus: The Movie ⓘ film "Somewhere in Time" ⓘ
surface form:
Somewhere in Time
Supergirl ⓘ Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ
surface form:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
|
| directedTelevisionEpisodeOf |
Bones
ⓘ
Boston Legal ⓘ Columbo ⓘ Fringe ⓘ Grey’s Anatomy ⓘ
surface form:
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes ⓘ Kojak ⓘ Night Gallery ⓘ Smallville ⓘ The Rockford Files ⓘ The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Twilight Zone (1985 series)
|
| familyName |
Jeannot Szwarc
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Szwarc
|
| genreSpecialization |
fantasy film
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science fiction ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeannot ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| name | Jeannot Szwarc self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing genre films and television series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jaws 2
ⓘ
Santa Claus: The Movie ⓘ film "Somewhere in Time" ⓘ
surface form:
Somewhere in Time
Supergirl ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
|
| yearsActive | 1960s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Jeannot Szwarc Description of subject: Jeannot Szwarc is a French-American film and television director best known for helming major genre projects such as "Jaws 2," "Somewhere in Time," and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Szwarc
subject surface form:
Somewhere in Time