John Boulting
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John Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the films he made with his twin brother Roy Boulting, including several notable mid-20th-century British dramas and satires.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Boulting canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398868 — 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: John Boulting Context triple: [Brighton Rock (1947 film), director, John Boulting]
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A.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
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B.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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C.
Colin St John Wilson
Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
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D.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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E.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
- 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: John Boulting Target entity description: John Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the films he made with his twin brother Roy Boulting, including several notable mid-20th-century British dramas and satires.
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A.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
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B.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
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C.
Colin St John Wilson
Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
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D.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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E.
Roy Budd
Roy Budd was a British jazz pianist and film composer best known for his iconic scores to movies such as "Get Carter" and other 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-11-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-06-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Reading School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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satire film ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Boulting brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brighton Rock
NERFINISHED
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Fame Is the Spur NERFINISHED ⓘ Heavens Above! NERFINISHED ⓘ I'm All Right Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucky Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ Pastor Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Private's Progress NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Days to Noon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Family Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guinea Pig NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magic Box NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outsider NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rainbow Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ The Way Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ Thunder Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bray, Berkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sunningdale, Berkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Roy Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Boulting
NERFINISHED
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Enid Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacqueline Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twin | Roy Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: John Boulting Description of subject: John Boulting was a British film director and producer, best known for the films he made with his twin brother Roy Boulting, including several notable mid-20th-century British dramas and satires.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brighton Rock (1947 film)