Frank Yablans
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Frank Yablans was an American film executive and producer known for his influential roles at major studios and for backing notable genre films in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Yablans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11202811 — 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: Frank Yablans Context triple: [The Fury, producer, Frank Yablans]
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A.
Walter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch was an Academy Award–winning American film producer and head of The Mirisch Corporation, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed films of the mid-20th century.
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B.
Peter Faiman
Peter Faiman is an Australian film and television director best known for directing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
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C.
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel was an acclaimed Austrian-American film producer known for epic classics such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," and "On the Waterfront."
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D.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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E.
Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney Sheinberg was an influential American entertainment executive best known for his long tenure as president and COO of MCA/Universal Studios and for helping launch the career of director Steven Spielberg.
- 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: Frank Yablans Target entity description: Frank Yablans was an American film executive and producer known for his influential roles at major studios and for backing notable genre films in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Walter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch was an Academy Award–winning American film producer and head of The Mirisch Corporation, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed films of the mid-20th century.
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B.
Peter Faiman
Peter Faiman is an Australian film and television director best known for directing the hit 1986 comedy film "Crocodile Dundee."
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C.
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel was an acclaimed Austrian-American film producer known for epic classics such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," and "On the Waterfront."
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D.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director best known for producing the "Rocky" series and numerous other acclaimed Hollywood films.
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E.
Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney Sheinberg was an influential American entertainment executive best known for his long tenure as president and COO of MCA/Universal Studios and for helping launch the career of director Steven Spielberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film executive
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | 1960s–1990s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| child |
Dale Yablans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-11-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-11-27 ⓘ |
| employer |
MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1975 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Frank Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
backed commercially successful genre films in the 1970s and 1980s
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helped revitalize Paramount Pictures in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Children of a Lesser God
NERFINISHED
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Mother, Jugs & Speed NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dallas Forty NERFINISHED ⓘ Rage NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Streak NERFINISHED ⓘ The Entity NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Unicorn NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Other NERFINISHED ⓘ The Star Chamber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film executive
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sibling | Irwin Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mimi Yablans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1971 ⓘ |
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: Frank Yablans Description of subject: Frank Yablans was an American film executive and producer known for his influential roles at major studios and for backing notable genre films in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.