Michael Cuesta
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Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Cuesta canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566898 — 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: Michael Cuesta Context triple: [City on a Hill, executiveProducer, Michael Cuesta]
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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E.
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.
- 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: Michael Cuesta Target entity description: Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
12 and Holding
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Dexter ⓘ Dexter ⓘ
surface form:
Dexter (pilot episode)
Homeland ⓘ Homeland ⓘ
surface form:
Homeland (pilot episode)
Kill the Messenger ⓘ L.I.E. ⓘ Six Feet Under ⓘ Tell Tale ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
crime drama
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drama ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| name | Michael Cuesta self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing pilot episodes of television series
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directing television drama series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
12 and Holding
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Dexter ⓘ Homeland ⓘ Kill the Messenger ⓘ L.I.E. ⓘ Six Feet Under ⓘ Tell Tale ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
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: Michael Cuesta Description of subject: Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
City on a Hill