Wolfgang Reitherman
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Disney animator
German-American
animator
film director
film producer
member of Disney's Nine Old Men
Wolfgang Reitherman was a prominent German-American animator, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios, best known as one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” and for directing several classic animated feature films.
All labels observed (1)
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| Wolfgang Reitherman canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2732433 — 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: Wolfgang Reitherman Context triple: [The Rescuers, director, Wolfgang Reitherman]
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A.
Clyde Geronimi
Clyde Geronimi was an Italian-American animator and film director best known for his work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated features and shorts during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-creator of iconic cartoon characters and series such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
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C.
William Hanna
William Hanna was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-founder of the Hanna-Barbera studio, which created iconic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
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D.
Jules Bass
Jules Bass was an American director, producer, and writer best known for his work on classic stop-motion and animated holiday television specials created with Rankin/Bass Productions.
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E.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
- 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: Wolfgang Reitherman Target entity description: Wolfgang Reitherman was a prominent German-American animator, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios, best known as one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” and for directing several classic animated feature films.
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A.
Clyde Geronimi
Clyde Geronimi was an Italian-American animator and film director best known for his work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated features and shorts during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-creator of iconic cartoon characters and series such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
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C.
William Hanna
William Hanna was an American animator, director, and producer best known as the co-founder of the Hanna-Barbera studio, which created iconic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo.
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D.
Jules Bass
Jules Bass was an American director, producer, and writer best known for his work on classic stop-motion and animated holiday television specials created with Rankin/Bass Productions.
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E.
Arthur Freed
Arthur Freed was an influential American film producer and lyricist best known for shaping the golden age of MGM musicals, including classics like "Singin’ in the Rain."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Wolfgang Reitherman Description of subject: Wolfgang Reitherman was a prominent German-American animator, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios, best known as one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” and for directing several classic animated feature films.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Disney's Robin Hood (1973 film)
subject linked to:
Disney's Robin Hood (1973 film)
subject linked to:
Reitherman