Colin Higgins
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Colin Higgins was an Australian-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the dark comedy film "Harold and Maude" and directing hits like "Foul Play" and "9 to 5."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colin Higgins canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179327 — 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: Colin Higgins Context triple: [Harold and Maude, screenwriter, Colin Higgins]
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A.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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B.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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C.
Christopher Crawford
Christopher Crawford was the adopted son of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford, later known for his estranged relationship with her and his involvement in the controversies surrounding her legacy.
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D.
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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E.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
- 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: Colin Higgins Target entity description: Colin Higgins was an Australian-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the dark comedy film "Harold and Maude" and directing hits like "Foul Play" and "9 to 5."
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A.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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B.
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd is a British cinematographer renowned for his gritty, handheld visual style in films such as The Hurt Locker, United 93, and Captain Phillips.
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C.
Christopher Crawford
Christopher Crawford was the adopted son of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford, later known for his estranged relationship with her and his involvement in the controversies surrounding her legacy.
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D.
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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E.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Colin Higgins Description of subject: Colin Higgins was an Australian-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the dark comedy film "Harold and Maude" and directing hits like "Foul Play" and "9 to 5."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
subject surface form:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
subject surface form:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
subject surface form:
Grover T. Muldoon
subject surface form:
9 to 5
subject surface form:
9 to 5