Alan Parker
E136501
Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Parker canonical | 19 |
| Alan William Parker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010159 — 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: Alan Parker Context triple: [BAFTA Fellowship, notableRecipient, Alan Parker]
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A.
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an acclaimed Australian film director known for his influential role in the Australian New Wave movement and for internationally recognized films such as "Breaker Morant" and "Driving Miss Daisy."
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B.
Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi is an acclaimed Australian film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," "A Cry in the Dark," and "Roxanne."
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C.
Peter Weir
Peter Weir is an acclaimed Australian film director known for influential works such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "Dead Poets Society," and "The Truman Show."
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D.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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E.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
- 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: Alan Parker Target entity description: Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
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A.
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an acclaimed Australian film director known for his influential role in the Australian New Wave movement and for internationally recognized films such as "Breaker Morant" and "Driving Miss Daisy."
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B.
Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi is an acclaimed Australian film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," "A Cry in the Dark," and "Roxanne."
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C.
Peter Weir
Peter Weir is an acclaimed Australian film director known for influential works such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "Dead Poets Society," and "The Truman Show."
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D.
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme was an American film director best known for his eclectic body of work, including the Oscar-winning thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" and acclaimed music documentaries like "Stop Making Sense."
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E.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Alan Parker Description of subject: Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alan William Parker
subject surface form:
Bugsy Malone
subject surface form:
Angela's Ashes