Sándor László Kellner
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Sándor László Kellner, better known as Alexander Korda, was a pioneering Hungarian-British film director and producer who became one of the most influential figures in early British cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sándor László Kellner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513851 — 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: Sándor László Kellner Context triple: [Alexander Korda, fullName, Sándor László Kellner]
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A.
Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director renowned for his visually expressive work on both European and Hollywood films.
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B.
Ferenc Gyulay
Ferenc Gyulay was an Austrian Imperial general of Hungarian origin best known for leading Austrian forces during the early stages of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859.
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C.
Rudolf E. Kálmán
Rudolf E. Kálmán was a pioneering Hungarian-American electrical engineer and mathematician best known for developing the Kalman filter, a fundamental algorithm in control theory and signal processing.
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D.
Károly Grósz
Károly Grósz was a Hungarian communist politician who served as the last hardline General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the late 1980s transition period.
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E.
József Kauser
József Kauser was a Hungarian architect best known for his significant role in completing and shaping the design of Budapest’s monumental St. Stephen's Basilica.
- 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: Sándor László Kellner Target entity description: Sándor László Kellner, better known as Alexander Korda, was a pioneering Hungarian-British film director and producer who became one of the most influential figures in early British cinema.
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A.
Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director renowned for his visually expressive work on both European and Hollywood films.
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B.
Ferenc Gyulay
Ferenc Gyulay was an Austrian Imperial general of Hungarian origin best known for leading Austrian forces during the early stages of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859.
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C.
Rudolf E. Kálmán
Rudolf E. Kálmán was a pioneering Hungarian-American electrical engineer and mathematician best known for developing the Kalman filter, a fundamental algorithm in control theory and signal processing.
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D.
Károly Grósz
Károly Grósz was a Hungarian communist politician who served as the last hardline General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the late 1980s transition period.
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E.
József Kauser
József Kauser was a Hungarian architect best known for his significant role in completing and shaping the design of Budapest’s monumental St. Stephen's Basilica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ studio executive ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alexander Korda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sir Alexander Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Picture nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Sándor László Kellner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Hungary
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-09-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-01-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Budapest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
London Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Kellner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
British cinema
ⓘ
cinema ⓘ |
| founded |
Denham Film Studios
NERFINISHED
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London Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sándor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Knight Bachelor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Hungarian ⓘ |
| movement | early British film industry ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first filmmaker to receive a knighthood in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rembrandt (1936 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Drum (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Feathers (1939 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lion Has Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Private Life of Henry VIII NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thief of Bagdad NERFINISHED ⓘ Things to Come NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ film studio executive ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hungary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pusztatúrpásztó NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Berlin
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Vienna ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Vincent Korda
NERFINISHED
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Zoltán Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexandra Boycun
NERFINISHED
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Maria Corda NERFINISHED ⓘ Merle Oberon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sándor László Kellner Description of subject: Sándor László Kellner, better known as Alexander Korda, was a pioneering Hungarian-British film director and producer who became one of the most influential figures in early British cinema.
Referenced by (1)
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