Don Burgess
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Don Burgess is an American cinematographer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on the film "Forrest Gump" and his frequent collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Burgess canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636954 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Burgess Context triple: [Forrest Gump, cinematographyBy, Don Burgess]
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Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Ron Dixon
Ron Dixon is a former NFL wide receiver and kick returner best known for his explosive return touchdowns for the New York Giants during their run to Super Bowl XXXV.
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C.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Burgess Target entity description: Don Burgess is an American cinematographer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on the film "Forrest Gump" and his frequent collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis.
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Ron Dixon
Ron Dixon is a former NFL wide receiver and kick returner best known for his explosive return touchdowns for the New York Giants during their run to Super Bowl XXXV.
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C.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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D.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Don Burgess self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| familyName | Burgess ⓘ |
| givenName | Don ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaborations with Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Don Burgess self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ |
| notableWork | Forrest Gump ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Allied
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Cast Away ⓘ Contact ⓘ Enchanted ⓘ Flight ⓘ Forrest Gump ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man ⓘ
surface form:
Spider-Man
Muppets ⓘ
surface form:
The Muppets
The Polar Express ⓘ What Lies Beneath ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Don Burgess Description of subject: Don Burgess is an American cinematographer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on the film "Forrest Gump" and his frequent collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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features a volleyball named Wilson as a companion to the protagonist
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cinematographyBy
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Don Burgess
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subject surface form:
Cast Away
subject surface form:
13 Going on 30
subject surface form:
Forrest Gump