Phil Joanou
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Phil Joanou is an American film and music video director best known for his collaborations with U2 and for directing feature films such as "State of Grace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Joanou canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130710 — 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: Phil Joanou Context triple: [Rattle and Hum, directedBy, Phil Joanou]
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A.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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B.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
David A. Newman
David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
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E.
Greg Abel
Greg Abel is a Canadian businessman and heir apparent to Warren Buffett as the future leader of Berkshire Hathaway, overseeing the conglomerate’s non-insurance operations.
- 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: Phil Joanou Target entity description: Phil Joanou is an American film and music video director best known for his collaborations with U2 and for directing feature films such as "State of Grace."
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A.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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B.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
David A. Newman
David A. Newman is a screenwriter known for co-writing the hit romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," adapted from Steve Harvey’s bestselling book.
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E.
Greg Abel
Greg Abel is a Canadian businessman and heir apparent to Warren Buffett as the future leader of Berkshire Hathaway, overseeing the conglomerate’s non-insurance operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ music video director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Dirty Laundry
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Entropy ⓘ Final Analysis ⓘ Gridiron Gang ⓘ Heaven's Prisoners ⓘ State of Grace ⓘ The Veil ⓘ Three O'Clock High ⓘ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (documentary) ⓘ
surface form:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
U2: Elevation 2001: Live from Boston ⓘ U2 – Rattle and Hum ⓘ
surface form:
U2: Rattle and Hum
U2: Zoo TV Live from Sydney ⓘ episodes of Fallen Angels ⓘ episodes of The Prisoner (2009) ⓘ episodes of Wild Palms ⓘ music videos for Bon Jovi ⓘ music videos for Mariah Carey ⓘ music videos for Shania Twain ⓘ music videos for Tom Petty ⓘ music videos for U2 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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documentary film ⓘ drama film ⓘ music documentary ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with U2
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directing State of Grace ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Entropy
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Final Analysis ⓘ Gridiron Gang ⓘ Heaven's Prisoners ⓘ State of Grace ⓘ The Prisoner ⓘ
surface form:
The Prisoner (TV miniseries, director of episodes)
Punisher ⓘ
surface form:
The Punisher (short film, Dirty Laundry)
The Veil ⓘ Three O'Clock High ⓘ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (documentary) ⓘ
surface form:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
U2: Elevation 2001: Live from Boston ⓘ U2: Live from Paris ⓘ U2 – Rattle and Hum ⓘ
surface form:
U2: Rattle and Hum
U2: Zoo TV Live from Sydney ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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music video director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
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: Phil Joanou Description of subject: Phil Joanou is an American film and music video director best known for his collaborations with U2 and for directing feature films such as "State of Grace."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.