Richard Marquand
E420912
Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for helming the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Marquand canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4209139 — 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: Richard Marquand Context triple: [Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, director, Richard Marquand]
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A.
Alan Ford
Alan Ford is a British character actor best known for his tough-guy and gangster roles in films by director Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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C.
John Milius
John Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on films like "Apocalypse Now" and "Conan the Barbarian," as well as his influential, macho storytelling style.
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D.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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E.
Nick Meyer
Nick Meyer is a film executive and producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the fantasy adventure film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves."
- 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: Richard Marquand Target entity description: Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for helming the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi."
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A.
Alan Ford
Alan Ford is a British character actor best known for his tough-guy and gangster roles in films by director Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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C.
John Milius
John Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on films like "Apocalypse Now" and "Conan the Barbarian," as well as his influential, macho storytelling style.
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D.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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E.
Nick Meyer
Nick Meyer is a film executive and producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the fantasy adventure film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Welsh person
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wales ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-09-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1987-09-04 ⓘ |
| directed |
Birth of the Beatles
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Eye of the Needle ⓘ Jagged Edge ⓘ Mother Night ⓘ Return of the Jedi ONNED1 ⓘ The Legacy ⓘ Until September ⓘ |
| directedInstallmentOfSeries | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedTelevision |
BBC television programmes
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surface form:
BBC documentaries
|
| director | Richard Marquand ONNED1 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King's College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| familyName | Marquand ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| fullName | Richard Marquand self-link ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Welsh ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing Return of the Jedi ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
ⓘ
surface form:
Return of the Jedi
|
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cardiff ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tucson, Arizona ONNED1 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Star Wars
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surface form:
Star Wars film series
|
| workedWith |
Carrie Fisher
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George Lucas ⓘ Harrison Ford ⓘ Mark Hamill ⓘ |
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: Richard Marquand Description of subject: Richard Marquand was a Welsh film director best known for helming the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.