James Toback
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James Toback is an American screenwriter and film director known for psychologically intense, character-driven dramas such as "Fingers," which inspired the French film "The Beat That My Heart Skipped."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Toback canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7436629 — 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: James Toback Context triple: [The Beat That My Heart Skipped, basedOnAuthor, James Toback]
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A.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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B.
Jonathan Baumbach
Jonathan Baumbach was an American novelist, short story writer, and film critic associated with postmodern literature and the independent film community.
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C.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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D.
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter known for his offbeat, character-driven dramas and romantic films, often blending ensemble casts with stylized, atmospheric storytelling.
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E.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror 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: James Toback Target entity description: James Toback is an American screenwriter and film director known for psychologically intense, character-driven dramas such as "Fingers," which inspired the French film "The Beat That My Heart Skipped."
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A.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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B.
Jonathan Baumbach
Jonathan Baumbach was an American novelist, short story writer, and film critic associated with postmodern literature and the independent film community.
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C.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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D.
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter known for his offbeat, character-driven dramas and romantic films, often blending ensemble casts with stylized, atmospheric storytelling.
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E.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-11-23 ⓘ |
| directed |
Black and White
NERFINISHED
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Fingers NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Girls and a Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
James Toback
NERFINISHED
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James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| inspired | The Beat That My Heart Skipped NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black and White
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bugsy NERFINISHED ⓘ Fingers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gambler NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Girls and a Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
James Toback
NERFINISHED
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James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
character-driven drama
ⓘ
psychologically intense ⓘ |
| wrote |
Bugsy
NERFINISHED
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Fingers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gambler 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: James Toback Description of subject: James Toback is an American screenwriter and film director known for psychologically intense, character-driven dramas such as "Fingers," which inspired the French film "The Beat That My Heart Skipped."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.