Kevin Macdonald
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Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish filmmaker best known for directing acclaimed documentaries and feature films such as "One Day in September" and "The Last King of Scotland."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Macdonald canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705955 — 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: Kevin Macdonald Context triple: [Cai Guo-Qiang, documentaryDirector, Kevin Macdonald]
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A.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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D.
Thomas Eyre
Thomas Eyre is a relatively obscure historical figure whose specific identity and achievements are not clearly distinguished in common reference sources.
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E.
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce is an acclaimed Australian film director known for both influential early work in the Australian New Wave and successful Hollywood thrillers such as "Patriot Games" and "The Bone Collector."
- 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: Kevin Macdonald Target entity description: Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish filmmaker best known for directing acclaimed documentaries and feature films such as "One Day in September" and "The Last King of Scotland."
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A.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Iain Softley
Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
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D.
Thomas Eyre
Thomas Eyre is a relatively obscure historical figure whose specific identity and achievements are not clearly distinguished in common reference sources.
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E.
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce is an acclaimed Australian film director known for both influential early work in the Australian New Wave and successful Hollywood thrillers such as "Patriot Games" and "The Bone Collector."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField |
cinema
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documentary filmmaking ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | One Day in September NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-10-28 ⓘ |
| directed |
Black Sea
NERFINISHED
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How I Live Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Life in a Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Marley NERFINISHED ⓘ One Day in September NERFINISHED ⓘ State of Play NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eagle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last King of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Touching the Void NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Glenalmond College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
documentary film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Emeric Pressburger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
How I Live Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Life in a Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Marley NERFINISHED ⓘ One Day in September NERFINISHED ⓘ State of Play NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eagle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last King of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Touching the Void NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Andrew Macdonald
NERFINISHED
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Emeric Pressburger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Andrew Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kevin Macdonald Description of subject: Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish filmmaker best known for directing acclaimed documentaries and feature films such as "One Day in September" and "The Last King of Scotland."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State of Play (2009 film)
subject surface form:
One Day in September