Sean Cunningham
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Sean Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the original horror classic "Friday the 13th."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Cunningham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6231115 — 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: Sean Cunningham Context triple: [Cunningham, hasNotableBearer, Sean Cunningham]
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A.
Keith Cunningham
Keith Cunningham is a business mentor, author, and speaker known for his expertise in financial literacy, strategic thinking, and entrepreneurial leadership.
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B.
Scott Cunningham
Scott Cunningham was an influential American Wiccan author and practitioner best known for his accessible books on modern witchcraft and natural magic.
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C.
Darin Cunningham
Darin Cunningham is an electronic music producer and DJ best known for his experimental work under the moniker Actress.
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D.
Sean Douglas
Sean Douglas is an American songwriter and record producer known for co-writing hit pop songs for artists such as Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, and Thomas Rhett.
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E.
Gary Cunningham
Gary Cunningham is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in sports coaching and public service.
- 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: Sean Cunningham Target entity description: Sean Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the original horror classic "Friday the 13th."
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A.
Keith Cunningham
Keith Cunningham is a business mentor, author, and speaker known for his expertise in financial literacy, strategic thinking, and entrepreneurial leadership.
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B.
Scott Cunningham
Scott Cunningham was an influential American Wiccan author and practitioner best known for his accessible books on modern witchcraft and natural magic.
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C.
Darin Cunningham
Darin Cunningham is an electronic music producer and DJ best known for his experimental work under the moniker Actress.
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D.
Sean Douglas
Sean Douglas is an American songwriter and record producer known for co-writing hit pop songs for artists such as Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, and Thomas Rhett.
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E.
Gary Cunningham
Gary Cunningham is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in sports coaching and public service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century film
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21st-century film ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1941-12-31 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | Friday the 13th franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed |
A Stranger Is Watching
NERFINISHED
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DeepStar Six NERFINISHED ⓘ Friday the 13th NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreSpecialization | slasher film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the Friday the 13th franchise
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directing the original Friday the 13th (1980) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sean S. Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Friday the 13th
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Last House on the Left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| produced |
Freddy vs. Jason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Friday the 13th NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason X NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last House on the Left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOf |
Friday the 13th Part III
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Sean Cunningham Description of subject: Sean Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the original horror classic "Friday the 13th."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.