Peter Medak
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Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born British film and television director known for works such as the crime biopic "The Krays" and the horror classic "The Changeling."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Medak canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4696116 — 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: Peter Medak Context triple: [The Krays, director, Peter Medak]
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A.
Thomas Kostura
Thomas Kostura is an individual known for being a plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage recognition case Tanco v. Haslam in Tennessee.
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B.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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C.
Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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D.
Peter Viertel
Peter Viertel was a German-born American novelist and screenwriter known for works like "White Hunter Black Heart" and for his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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E.
John Miljan
John Miljan was an American film actor known for his prolific career in early Hollywood, often portraying suave villains and authority figures in silent and sound films.
- 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: Peter Medak Target entity description: Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born British film and television director known for works such as the crime biopic "The Krays" and the horror classic "The Changeling."
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A.
Thomas Kostura
Thomas Kostura is an individual known for being a plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage recognition case Tanco v. Haslam in Tennessee.
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B.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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C.
Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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D.
Peter Viertel
Peter Viertel was a German-born American novelist and screenwriter known for works like "White Hunter Black Heart" and for his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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E.
John Miljan
John Miljan was an American film actor known for his prolific career in early Hollywood, often portraying suave villains and authority figures in silent and sound films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film director
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Hungarian emigrant ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-12-23 ⓘ |
| directed |
Let Him Have It
NERFINISHED
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Romeo Is Bleeding NERFINISHED ⓘ Species II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Changeling NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Krays NERFINISHED ⓘ The Men’s Room NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ruling Class NERFINISHED ⓘ episodes of "Breaking Bad" ⓘ episodes of "Carnivàle" ⓘ episodes of "Hannibal" ⓘ episodes of "Masters of Horror" ⓘ episodes of "The Wire" ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian ⓘ |
| familyName | Medak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasChild | children (unspecified number) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | British cinema ⓘ |
| name | Peter Medak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing the crime biopic "The Krays"
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directing the horror film "The Changeling" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Let Him Have It
NERFINISHED
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Romeo Is Bleeding NERFINISHED ⓘ Species II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Changeling NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Krays NERFINISHED ⓘ The Men’s Room NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ruling Class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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producer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Budapest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carol White
NERFINISHED
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Julia Migenes NERFINISHED ⓘ Mia Nadasi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Peter Medak Description of subject: Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born British film and television director known for works such as the crime biopic "The Krays" and the horror classic "The Changeling."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.