Alejandro Jodorowsky
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actor
artist
comics writer
esotericist
film director
human
playwright
poet
screenwriter
tarot reader
writer
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, writer, and artist known for his surreal, avant-garde films and influential work in comics and esoteric spirituality.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alejandro Jodorowsky canonical | 9 |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky | 1 |
| Jodorowsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1886000 — 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: Alejandro Jodorowsky Context triple: [Alejandro, notableBearer, Alejandro Jodorowsky]
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A.
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel was a pioneering Spanish filmmaker renowned for his surrealist and subversive films that profoundly influenced 20th-century cinema.
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B.
David Lynch
David Lynch is an American filmmaker, artist, and musician renowned for his surreal, dreamlike storytelling and influential works such as "Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet," and the television series "Twin Peaks."
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C.
Robby Müller
Robby Müller was a renowned Dutch cinematographer celebrated for his innovative, naturalistic visual style in films by directors such as Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch.
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D.
Jean Franco
Jean Franco was a French mountaineer best known for leading the successful 1955 French expedition that made the first ascent of Makalu in the Himalayas.
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E.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky was a renowned Soviet film director and screenwriter celebrated for his poetic, philosophical, and visually meditative cinema, including works like "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and "Stalker."
- 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: Alejandro Jodorowsky Target entity description: Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, writer, and artist known for his surreal, avant-garde films and influential work in comics and esoteric spirituality.
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A.
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel was a pioneering Spanish filmmaker renowned for his surrealist and subversive films that profoundly influenced 20th-century cinema.
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B.
David Lynch
David Lynch is an American filmmaker, artist, and musician renowned for his surreal, dreamlike storytelling and influential works such as "Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet," and the television series "Twin Peaks."
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C.
Robby Müller
Robby Müller was a renowned Dutch cinematographer celebrated for his innovative, naturalistic visual style in films by directors such as Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch.
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D.
Jean Franco
Jean Franco was a French mountaineer best known for leading the successful 1955 French expedition that made the first ascent of Makalu in the Himalayas.
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E.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky was a renowned Soviet film director and screenwriter celebrated for his poetic, philosophical, and visually meditative cinema, including works like "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and "Stalker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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artist ⓘ comics writer ⓘ esotericist ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ tarot reader ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| birthName |
Alejandro Jodorowsky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky
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| child |
Adan Jodorowsky
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Axel Jodorowsky ⓘ Brontis Jodorowsky ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Dan O'Bannon
ⓘ
H. R. Giger ⓘ
surface form:
H.R. Giger
Jean Giraud ⓘ Michel Seydoux ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Chile
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France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-02-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Ukrainian Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName |
Alejandro Jodorowsky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Jodorowsky
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| genre |
fantasy comics
ⓘ
surrealist film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alejandro ⓘ |
| influenced |
independent cinema
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midnight movie movement ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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Spanish ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde cinema
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surrealism ⓘ |
| name | Alejandro Jodorowsky self-link ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
psychogenealogy
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psychomagic ⓘ |
| notableProject | unrealized film adaptation of Dune ⓘ |
| notableWork |
El Topo
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Endless Poetry ⓘ Fando y Lis ⓘ Metabarons ⓘ Psychomagic: A Method for Healing the Soul ⓘ Santa Sangre ⓘ The Dance of Reality ⓘ The Holy Mountain ⓘ The Incal ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comics writer ⓘ esoteric teacher ⓘ film producer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tocopilla, Chile ⓘ |
| religion | esoteric spirituality ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| spouse |
Mara Jodorowsky
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Valerie Jodorowsky ⓘ |
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: Alejandro Jodorowsky Description of subject: Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, writer, and artist known for his surreal, avant-garde films and influential work in comics and esoteric spirituality.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky
this entity surface form:
Jodorowsky