Jared Bush

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American film director American screenwriter film director human screenwriter

Jared Bush is an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on Disney animated films such as Zootopia, Moana, and Encanto.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Jared Bush canonical	12
JaredBush	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748793 — 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: Jared Bush
Context triple: [Zootopia, coDirector, Jared Bush]

A. Evan Czaplicki
Evan Czaplicki is a software engineer best known for designing and developing Elm, a functional programming language for building reliable web front-end applications.
B. Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
C. Connor Schell
Connor Schell is an American television and film producer best known for his work at ESPN, where he helped pioneer high-quality sports storytelling and documentary programming.
D. Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
E. Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
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: Jared Bush
Target entity description: Jared Bush is an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on Disney animated films such as Zootopia, Moana, and Encanto.

A. Evan Czaplicki
Evan Czaplicki is a software engineer best known for designing and developing Elm, a functional programming language for building reliable web front-end applications.
B. Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
C. Connor Schell
Connor Schell is an American television and film producer best known for his work at ESPN, where he helped pioneer high-quality sports storytelling and documentary programming.
D. Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
E. Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film director ⓘ American screenwriter ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ
associatedWith	Disney ⓘ Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Animated Feature ⓘ surface form: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (for Encanto, as part of the filmmaking team) Academy Award for Best Animated Feature ⓘ surface form: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (for Zootopia, as part of the filmmaking team)
citizenship	United States of America ⓘ
countryOfWork	United States of America ⓘ
employer	Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ
fieldOfWork	animation ⓘ film direction ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ
genre	animation ⓘ family film ⓘ
industry	film industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ
knownFor	directing animated films ⓘ writing animated films ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableAchievement	co-directed Disney’s Encanto ⓘ co-wrote Disney’s Moana ⓘ co-wrote Disney’s Zootopia ⓘ
notableWork	Encanto ⓘ Moana ⓘ Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero ⓘ Raya and the Last Dragon (story contribution) ⓘ Zootopia ⓘ
occupation	film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ voice actor ⓘ
roleInWork	Encanto co-director ⓘ Encanto screenwriter ⓘ Moana screenwriter ⓘ Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero co-creator ⓘ Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero executive producer ⓘ Raya and the Last Dragon story contributor ⓘ Zootopia co-director ⓘ Zootopia screenwriter ⓘ
workedOn	Encanto ⓘ Moana ⓘ Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero ⓘ Raya and the Last Dragon (2021 film) ⓘ surface form: Raya and the Last Dragon Zootopia ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zootopia → coDirector → Jared Bush ⓘ

Zootopia → screenwriter → Jared Bush ⓘ

Zootopia → storyBy → Jared Bush ⓘ

Encanto → director → Jared Bush ⓘ

Encanto → screenwriter → Jared Bush ⓘ

Encanto → storyBy → Jared Bush ⓘ

Moana → screenwriter → Jared Bush ⓘ

Nick Wilde → creator → Jared Bush ⓘ

Chief Bogo → createdBy → Jared Bush ⓘ

Jenny Slate as Dawn Bellwether → createdBy → Jared Bush ⓘ

this entity surface form: JaredBush

Jenny Slate as Dawn Bellwether → filmCoDirectedBy → Jared Bush ⓘ

this entity surface form: JaredBush

Phil Johnston → co-wroteWith → Jared Bush ⓘ

Jim Reardon → hasWorkedWith → Jared Bush ⓘ

Nick Wilde in Zootopia → creator → Jared Bush ⓘ

subject surface form: Nick Wilde

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Referenced by (14)

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