Dexter Shyer
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Dexter Shyer is the son of American film director and screenwriter Charles Shyer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dexter Shyer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12811049 — 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: Dexter Shyer Context triple: [Charles Shyer, hasChild, Dexter Shyer]
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A.
Michael Flanagan
Michael Flanagan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson is an American film and television director known for psychological thrillers and genre films such as "The Machinist" and "Session 9."
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C.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
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D.
Glenn Ficarra
Glenn Ficarra is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for co-writing and directing films such as "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "I Love You Phillip Morris," often in collaboration with John Requa.
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E.
Neil Burger
Neil Burger is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas and genre films such as "The Illusionist," "Limitless," and "Divergent."
- 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: Dexter Shyer Target entity description: Dexter Shyer is the son of American film director and screenwriter Charles Shyer.
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A.
Michael Flanagan
Michael Flanagan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson is an American film and television director known for psychological thrillers and genre films such as "The Machinist" and "Session 9."
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C.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
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D.
Glenn Ficarra
Glenn Ficarra is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for co-writing and directing films such as "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "I Love You Phillip Morris," often in collaboration with John Requa.
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E.
Neil Burger
Neil Burger is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas and genre films such as "The Illusionist," "Limitless," and "Divergent."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Dexter Shyer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Charles Shyer ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Dexter Shyer Description of subject: Dexter Shyer is the son of American film director and screenwriter Charles Shyer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dexter Shyer