Nicholas Stoller
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Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicholas Stoller canonical | 43 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1198371 — 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: Nicholas Stoller Context triple: [The Five-Year Engagement, director, Nicholas Stoller]
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A.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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B.
Michael Schur
Michael Schur is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating acclaimed comedy series such as Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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C.
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor best known for helming mainstream comedies and adventure films such as the "Night at the Museum" series and for producing hit television shows like "Stranger Things."
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D.
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director known for his distinctive laugh and roles in numerous hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "Knocked Up."
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E.
Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
- 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: Nicholas Stoller Target entity description: Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
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A.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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B.
Michael Schur
Michael Schur is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating acclaimed comedy series such as Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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C.
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor best known for helming mainstream comedies and adventure films such as the "Night at the Museum" series and for producing hit television shows like "Stranger Things."
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D.
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director known for his distinctive laugh and roles in numerous hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "Knocked Up."
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E.
Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Nicholas Stoller Description of subject: Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.