Paul Weitz
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Paul Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for co-directing "American Pie" and directing films such as "About a Boy" and "In Good Company."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Weitz canonical | 47 |
| Paul Weitz (filmmaker) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2864922 — 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: Paul Weitz Context triple: [Chris Weitz, sibling, Paul Weitz]
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A.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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B.
Gregory Mottola
Gregory Mottola is an American film director and screenwriter best known for directing the comedy films "Superbad" and "Adventureland."
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C.
Larry Karaszewski
Larry Karaszewski is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing offbeat biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
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D.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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E.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
- 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: Paul Weitz Target entity description: Paul Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for co-directing "American Pie" and directing films such as "About a Boy" and "In Good Company."
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A.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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B.
Gregory Mottola
Gregory Mottola is an American film director and screenwriter best known for directing the comedy films "Superbad" and "Adventureland."
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C.
Larry Karaszewski
Larry Karaszewski is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing offbeat biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
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D.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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E.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning film "Crash" and co-writing "Million Dollar Baby."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| co-directed | American Pie ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
About a Boy
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Admission ⓘ American Dreamz ⓘ Being Flynn ⓘ Bel Canto ⓘ Grandma ⓘ In Good Company ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wesleyan University ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Weitz ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableWork |
About a Boy
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American Dreamz ⓘ American Pie ⓘ Grandma ⓘ In Good Company ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| producerOf |
About a Boy
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American Pie ⓘ In Good Company ⓘ |
| relative |
John Weitz
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Lupita Nyong'o ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
About a Boy
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American Pie ⓘ Antz ⓘ |
| sibling | Chris Weitz ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Dennis Quaid
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Hugh Grant ⓘ Lily Tomlin ⓘ Paul Rudd ⓘ Toni Collette ⓘ |
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: Paul Weitz Description of subject: Paul Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for co-directing "American Pie" and directing films such as "About a Boy" and "In Good Company."
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Down to Earth
linked to: Paul Weitz
subject linked to:
Nick Flynn
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Grandma
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Grandma
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Off Centre (TV series)
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Off Centre (TV series)