Ivan Passer
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Ivan Passer was a Czech-born film director and screenwriter associated with the Czech New Wave who later built a notable career in American cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ivan Passer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9846854 — 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: Ivan Passer Context triple: [Czech New Wave, notableDirector, Ivan Passer]
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A.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
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B.
Paul Kroitor
Paul Kroitor is the child of renowned Canadian filmmaker and IMAX co-founder Roman Kroitor.
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C.
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky is a prominent Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for works such as "Siberiade," "Runaway Train," and "House of Fools."
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D.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff is an acclaimed German film director and screenwriter, known for his influential adaptations of literary works and for winning the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for "The Tin Drum."
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E.
Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov is a Russian film director and screenwriter renowned for his meditative, visually distinctive art films such as "Russian Ark" and "Mother and Son."
- 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: Ivan Passer Target entity description: Ivan Passer was a Czech-born film director and screenwriter associated with the Czech New Wave who later built a notable career in American cinema.
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A.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
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B.
Paul Kroitor
Paul Kroitor is the child of renowned Canadian filmmaker and IMAX co-founder Roman Kroitor.
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C.
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky is a prominent Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for works such as "Siberiade," "Runaway Train," and "House of Fools."
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D.
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff is an acclaimed German film director and screenwriter, known for his influential adaptations of literary works and for winning the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for "The Tin Drum."
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E.
Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov is a Russian film director and screenwriter renowned for his meditative, visually distinctive art films such as "Russian Ark" and "Mother and Son."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech New Wave filmmaker
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Czech New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Special Prize of the Jury at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Czechoslovakia
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Jaroslav Papoušek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miloš Forman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-07-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-01-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Passer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Ivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
American independent cinema directors
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later generations of Czech filmmakers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Czech
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| movement | Czech New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ivan Passer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the Czech New Wave
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directing American independent films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Born to Win
NERFINISHED
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Creator ⓘ Cutter's Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Intimate Lighting NERFINISHED ⓘ Law and Disorder NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Bears NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Reno, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse | Libuše Passerová NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | retrospectives at international film festivals ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Czechoslovakia
NERFINISHED
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United States of America 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: Ivan Passer Description of subject: Ivan Passer was a Czech-born film director and screenwriter associated with the Czech New Wave who later built a notable career in American cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.