Jonas Sternberg
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Jonas Sternberg, better known as Josef von Sternberg, was an influential Austrian-American film director celebrated for his visually rich, stylized films and his collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Sternberg | 1 |
| Jonas Sternberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9098593 — 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: Jonas Sternberg Context triple: [Josef von Sternberg, birthName, Jonas Sternberg]
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A.
Eli Sternberg
Eli Sternberg was a prominent engineer and applied mathematician known for his influential contributions to the theory of elasticity and solid mechanics.
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B.
Joel Bernstein
Joel Bernstein is an American photographer and guitarist best known for his iconic album cover photography and long-term collaborations with major rock and folk musicians.
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C.
Tom Sternberg
Tom Sternberg is a film producer best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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D.
Sandro Stern
Sandro Stern is a screenwriter best known for his work on the horror film "The Amityville Horror."
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E.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
- 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: Jonas Sternberg Target entity description: Jonas Sternberg, better known as Josef von Sternberg, was an influential Austrian-American film director celebrated for his visually rich, stylized films and his collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
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A.
Eli Sternberg
Eli Sternberg was a prominent engineer and applied mathematician known for his influential contributions to the theory of elasticity and solid mechanics.
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B.
Joel Bernstein
Joel Bernstein is an American photographer and guitarist best known for his iconic album cover photography and long-term collaborations with major rock and folk musicians.
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C.
Tom Sternberg
Tom Sternberg is a film producer best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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D.
Sandro Stern
Sandro Stern is a screenwriter best known for his work on the horror film "The Amityville Horror."
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E.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1950s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jonas Sternberg
NERFINISHED
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Josef Von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-05-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-12-22 ⓘ |
| employer | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
film noir aesthetics
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later auteur filmmakers ⓘ |
| movement | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with Marlene Dietrich
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visually rich and stylized films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anatahan
NERFINISHED
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Blonde Venus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dishonored NERFINISHED ⓘ Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai Express NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blue Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil Is a Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Docks of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ The Scarlet Empress NERFINISHED ⓘ Underworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| style |
elaborate mise-en-scène
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expressionistic lighting ⓘ highly stylized cinematography ⓘ |
| workedWith | Marlene Dietrich 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: Jonas Sternberg Description of subject: Jonas Sternberg, better known as Josef von Sternberg, was an influential Austrian-American film director celebrated for his visually rich, stylized films and his collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joe Sternberg