Donald Cammell
E143857
Donald Cammell was a British film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the cult classic "Performance" and for his visually experimental, psychologically intense style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald Cammell canonical | 4 |
| Donald Seton Cammell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1131062 — 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: Donald Cammell Context triple: [Pride (In the Name of Love), musicVideoDirector, Donald Cammell]
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A.
Alan Parker
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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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.
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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D.
Michael Powell
Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
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E.
Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
- 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: Donald Cammell Target entity description: Donald Cammell was a British film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the cult classic "Performance" and for his visually experimental, psychologically intense style.
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A.
Alan Parker
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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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.
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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D.
Michael Powell
Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
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E.
Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Donald Cammell Description of subject: Donald Cammell was a British film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the cult classic "Performance" and for his visually experimental, psychologically intense style.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donald Seton Cammell