Brian Grant
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Brian Grant is a British film and music video director best known for directing iconic 1980s pop videos, including Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Grant canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155664 — 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: Brian Grant Context triple: [I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), musicVideoDirector, Brian Grant]
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A.
Phil Esposito
Phil Esposito is a Hall of Fame Canadian center renowned as one of the NHL’s greatest goal scorers and a key offensive star of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden is a legendary Canadian goaltender who backstopped the Montreal Canadiens to multiple Stanley Cup championships in the 1970s before becoming an author, lawyer, and politician.
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C.
Mike Gartner
Mike Gartner is a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger renowned as one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers, surpassing 700 career goals over a 19-season career.
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D.
Jacques Plante
Jacques Plante was a pioneering Canadian goaltender best known for revolutionizing ice hockey by popularizing the regular use of the goalie mask and starring for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Guy Lafleur
Guy Lafleur was a legendary Canadian right winger for the Montreal Canadiens, renowned for his scoring prowess, speed, and flair, and regarded as one of the greatest players in NHL history.
- 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: Brian Grant Target entity description: Brian Grant is a British film and music video director best known for directing iconic 1980s pop videos, including Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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A.
Phil Esposito
Phil Esposito is a Hall of Fame Canadian center renowned as one of the NHL’s greatest goal scorers and a key offensive star of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden is a legendary Canadian goaltender who backstopped the Montreal Canadiens to multiple Stanley Cup championships in the 1970s before becoming an author, lawyer, and politician.
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C.
Mike Gartner
Mike Gartner is a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger renowned as one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers, surpassing 700 career goals over a 19-season career.
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D.
Jacques Plante
Jacques Plante was a pioneering Canadian goaltender best known for revolutionizing ice hockey by popularizing the regular use of the goalie mask and starring for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Guy Lafleur
Guy Lafleur was a legendary Canadian right winger for the Montreal Canadiens, renowned for his scoring prowess, speed, and flair, and regarded as one of the greatest players in NHL history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ music video director ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directorOf | I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ⓘ |
| genre |
music video
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pop music video ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing iconic 1980s pop music videos ⓘ |
| notableWork | I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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music video director ⓘ |
| workedWith | Whitney Houston ⓘ |
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: Brian Grant Description of subject: Brian Grant is a British film and music video director best known for directing iconic 1980s pop videos, including Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Physical (song)