Demme
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Demme is the surname of Jonathan Demme, the acclaimed American film director known for works such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Demme canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3282987 — 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: Demme Context triple: [Jonathan Demme, familyName, Demme]
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A.
Emmen
Emmen is a major town and economic center in the northeastern Netherlands, known for its modern urban layout and attractions such as the Wildlands Adventure Zoo.
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B.
Emme
Emme is a river in Switzerland that flows through the canton of Bern and is a tributary of the Aare.
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C.
Drongen
Drongen is a district of the Belgian city of Ghent, known as a suburban area in East Flanders.
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D.
Hannut
Hannut is a municipality in the French-speaking Walloon Region of Belgium, known for its rural character and location between Liège and Brussels.
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E.
Germoe
Germoe is a small rural village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and scenic countryside near the coast.
- 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: Demme Target entity description: Demme is the surname of Jonathan Demme, the acclaimed American film director known for works such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia."
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A.
Emmen
Emmen is a major town and economic center in the northeastern Netherlands, known for its modern urban layout and attractions such as the Wildlands Adventure Zoo.
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B.
Emme
Emme is a river in Switzerland that flows through the canton of Bern and is a tributary of the Aare.
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C.
Drongen
Drongen is a district of the Belgian city of Ghent, known as a suburban area in East Flanders.
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D.
Hannut
Hannut is a municipality in the French-speaking Walloon Region of Belgium, known for its rural character and location between Liège and Brussels.
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E.
Germoe
Germoe is a small rural village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and scenic countryside near the coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert film
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family name ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Jonathan Demme ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Philadelphia
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Rachel Getting Married ⓘ Something Wild ⓘ Stop Making Sense ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jonathan Demme ⓘ |
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: Demme Description of subject: Demme is the surname of Jonathan Demme, the acclaimed American film director known for works such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.