Jan Švankmajer
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Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist renowned for his surreal, often darkly imaginative stop-motion animations and influential contributions to avant-garde cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Švankmajer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299991 — 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: Jan Švankmajer Context triple: [Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, hasNotableAlumni, Jan Švankmajer]
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A.
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel was an Oscar-winning Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his gentle, humanistic comedies and key contributions to the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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B.
Jan Němec
Jan Němec was a pioneering Czech film director whose bold, experimental works made him one of the central figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.
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C.
Lukáš Burget
Lukáš Burget is a Czech speech recognition researcher and professor known for his work on acoustic modeling and contributions to the development of the Kaldi speech recognition toolkit.
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D.
Evald Schorm
Evald Schorm was a prominent Czech film director and screenwriter associated with the Czech New Wave, known for his psychologically rich, socially critical dramas.
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E.
Jan Stráský
Jan Stráský was a Czech politician who served in top governmental roles during the final years of Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic.
- 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: Jan Švankmajer Target entity description: Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist renowned for his surreal, often darkly imaginative stop-motion animations and influential contributions to avant-garde cinema.
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A.
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel was an Oscar-winning Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his gentle, humanistic comedies and key contributions to the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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B.
Jan Němec
Jan Němec was a pioneering Czech film director whose bold, experimental works made him one of the central figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.
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C.
Lukáš Burget
Lukáš Burget is a Czech speech recognition researcher and professor known for his work on acoustic modeling and contributions to the development of the Kaldi speech recognition toolkit.
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D.
Evald Schorm
Evald Schorm was a prominent Czech film director and screenwriter associated with the Czech New Wave, known for his psychologically rich, socially critical dramas.
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E.
Jan Stráský
Jan Stráský was a Czech politician who served in top governmental roles during the final years of Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surrealist artist ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-09-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
NERFINISHED
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Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| familyName | Švankmajer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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film ⓘ surrealist art ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental film
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stop-motion animation ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Brothers Quay
NERFINISHED
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Terry Gilliam NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | Czech ⓘ |
| movement |
Czech surrealism
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surrealism ⓘ |
| name | Jan Švankmajer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
avant-garde cinema
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surreal stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice
NERFINISHED
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Conspirators of Pleasure NERFINISHED ⓘ Dimensions of Dialogue NERFINISHED ⓘ Down to the Cellar NERFINISHED ⓘ Faust NERFINISHED ⓘ Food NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Otik NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunacy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ puppeteer ⓘ scenographer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Czechoslovakia
NERFINISHED
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Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Eva Švankmajerová NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Prague 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: Jan Švankmajer Description of subject: Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist renowned for his surreal, often darkly imaginative stop-motion animations and influential contributions to avant-garde cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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hasNotableAlumni
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Jan Švankmajer
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