John Lesher
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John Lesher is an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed, auteur-driven movies such as the Academy Award–winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Lesher canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644693 — 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: John Lesher Context triple: [Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), producer, John Lesher]
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Jere Shea
Jere Shea is an American actor best known for his work in television and theater, including a prominent role in the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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C.
Cliff Hollingsworth
Cliff Hollingsworth is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the boxing drama film "Cinderella Man."
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D.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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E.
Wylie Gelber
Wylie Gelber is an American musician best known as the bassist and a founding member of the indie rock band Dawes.
- 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: John Lesher Target entity description: John Lesher is an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed, auteur-driven movies such as the Academy Award–winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Jere Shea
Jere Shea is an American actor best known for his work in television and theater, including a prominent role in the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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C.
Cliff Hollingsworth
Cliff Hollingsworth is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the boxing drama film "Cinderella Man."
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D.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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E.
Wylie Gelber
Wylie Gelber is an American musician best known as the bassist and a founding member of the indie rock band Dawes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: John Lesher Description of subject: John Lesher is an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed, auteur-driven movies such as the Academy Award–winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)