Roger Corman
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Roger Corman is an American filmmaker and producer renowned for his low-budget cult classics and for launching the careers of numerous major Hollywood directors and actors.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Corman canonical | 41 |
| Corman | 1 |
| Rodger Corman | 1 |
| Roger Corman filmography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1781762 — 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: Roger Corman Context triple: [The Pit and the Pendulum, filmAdaptationDirector, Roger Corman]
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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.
John Boyd-Carpenter
John Boyd-Carpenter was a British Conservative politician and government minister who held several senior posts in the mid-20th century, including key roles in economic and social policy.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Don Siegel
Don Siegel was an American film director best known for his taut, hard-edged action and crime dramas, including classics like "Dirty Harry" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
- 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: Roger Corman Target entity description: Roger Corman is an American filmmaker and producer renowned for his low-budget cult classics and for launching the careers of numerous major Hollywood directors and actors.
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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.
John Boyd-Carpenter
John Boyd-Carpenter was a British Conservative politician and government minister who held several senior posts in the mid-20th century, including key roles in economic and social policy.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his politically charged thrillers and character-driven dramas of the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Don Siegel
Don Siegel was an American film director best known for his taut, hard-edged action and crime dramas, including classics like "Dirty Harry" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Roger Corman Description of subject: Roger Corman is an American filmmaker and producer renowned for his low-budget cult classics and for launching the careers of numerous major Hollywood directors and actors.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)
subject surface form:
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)
this entity surface form:
Corman
this entity surface form:
Rodger Corman
subject surface form:
House of Usher
subject surface form:
The Pit and the Pendulum
subject surface form:
The Premature Burial
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
The Haunted Palace
subject surface form:
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
subject surface form:
The Tomb of Ligeia
subject surface form:
Pam Grier
this entity surface form:
Roger Corman filmography