Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor known for influential and often controversial films such as "Rosemary’s Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," as well as for his highly publicized legal troubles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roman Polanski canonical | 70 |
| Roman Polański | 2 |
| Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański | 1 |
| Roman Polanski (Chinatown) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379890 — 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: Roman Polanski Context triple: [New Hollywood, notableDirector, Roman Polanski]
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A.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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B.
William Friedkin
William Friedkin was an influential American filmmaker best known for directing the landmark 1970s films "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," which helped define the gritty, auteur-driven era of New Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer is a German quantum chemist and professor known both for his research in theoretical chemistry and for being married to former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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D.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
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E.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
- 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: Roman Polanski Target entity description: Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor known for influential and often controversial films such as "Rosemary’s Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," as well as for his highly publicized legal troubles.
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A.
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, suspense-driven movies and influential contributions to the New Hollywood era, including films like "Carrie," "Scarface," and "The Untouchables."
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B.
William Friedkin
William Friedkin was an influential American filmmaker best known for directing the landmark 1970s films "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist," which helped define the gritty, auteur-driven era of New Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer is a German quantum chemist and professor known both for his research in theoretical chemistry and for being married to former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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D.
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn was an influential American film director whose innovative, character-driven works like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped define the New Hollywood era.
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E.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian film director and producer best known for acclaimed movies such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Moonstruck."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Roman Polanski Description of subject: Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor known for influential and often controversial films such as "Rosemary’s Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," as well as for his highly publicized legal troubles.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
subject surface form:
Dorota