Woolie Reitherman
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Woolie Reitherman was a prominent American animator and director best known for his work on many classic Walt Disney animated films from the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Woolie Reitherman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13294140 — 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: Woolie Reitherman Context triple: [Wolfgang Reitherman, nickname, Woolie Reitherman]
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A.
Bibb Falk
Bibb Falk was an American baseball player and longtime University of Texas coach known for leading the Longhorns to multiple national championships and having the school's baseball stadium named in his honor.
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B.
Donald Oenslager
Donald Oenslager was an influential American theatrical set designer and educator known for helping shape modern stage design on Broadway in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Wally Holbrook
Wally Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Holbrook.
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D.
Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell was an innovative American jazz clarinetist known for his highly individual, expressive style that bridged traditional New Orleans jazz and more modern forms.
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E.
Erich Bergen
Erich Bergen is an American actor and singer best known for his role as Blake Moran on the political drama series "Madam Secretary" and for portraying Bob Gaudio in the film adaptation of the musical "Jersey Boys."
- 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: Woolie Reitherman Target entity description: Woolie Reitherman was a prominent American animator and director best known for his work on many classic Walt Disney animated films from the mid-20th century.
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A.
Bibb Falk
Bibb Falk was an American baseball player and longtime University of Texas coach known for leading the Longhorns to multiple national championships and having the school's baseball stadium named in his honor.
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B.
Donald Oenslager
Donald Oenslager was an influential American theatrical set designer and educator known for helping shape modern stage design on Broadway in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Wally Holbrook
Wally Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Holbrook.
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D.
Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell was an innovative American jazz clarinetist known for his highly individual, expressive style that bridged traditional New Orleans jazz and more modern forms.
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E.
Erich Bergen
Erich Bergen is an American actor and singer best known for his role as Blake Moran on the political drama series "Madam Secretary" and for portraying Bob Gaudio in the film adaptation of the musical "Jersey Boys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animation director
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animator ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| familyName | Reitherman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animated film direction
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animation ⓘ |
| genre | animated feature film ⓘ |
| givenName | Wolfgang ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Disney's Nine Old Men ⓘ |
| name | Woolie Reitherman ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Woolie ⓘ |
| notability | prominent American animator and director at Walt Disney ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cinderella
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Fantasia ⓘ Lady and the Tramp ⓘ One Hundred and One Dalmatians ⓘ Peter Pan ⓘ Pinocchio ⓘ Robin Hood ⓘ Sleeping Beauty ⓘ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⓘ The Aristocats ⓘ The Jungle Book ⓘ The Rescuers ⓘ The Sword in the Stone ⓘ |
| occupation |
animation producer
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animator ⓘ film director ⓘ |
| workedOn | classic Walt Disney animated films ⓘ |
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: Woolie Reitherman Description of subject: Woolie Reitherman was a prominent American animator and director best known for his work on many classic Walt Disney animated films from the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.