Peter Segal
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Peter Segal is an American film director known for mainstream comedies such as "Tommy Boy," "50 First Dates," and "Get Smart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Segal canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3204980 — 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: Peter Segal Context triple: [Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, director, Peter Segal]
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A.
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer best known for commercial hits like the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand.
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B.
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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C.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
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D.
David W. Zucker
David W. Zucker is a television producer known for overseeing high-profile, prestige drama series, including the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s "The Man in the High Castle."
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- 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: Peter Segal Target entity description: Peter Segal is an American film director known for mainstream comedies such as "Tommy Boy," "50 First Dates," and "Get Smart."
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A.
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner is an American film director and producer best known for commercial hits like the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand.
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B.
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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C.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and cinematographer best known for directing the Men in Black trilogy and The Addams Family films.
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D.
David W. Zucker
David W. Zucker is a television producer known for overseeing high-profile, prestige drama series, including the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s "The Man in the High Castle."
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
50 First Dates
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Anger Management ⓘ Get Smart ⓘ Grudge Match ⓘ My Spy ⓘ Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ⓘ The Longest Yard ⓘ
linked to:
The Longest Yard (2005 film)
Tommy Boy ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
USC School of Cinematic Arts
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Segal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Peter Segal ⓘ |
| notableFor | mainstream comedy films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
50 First Dates
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Get Smart ⓘ Tommy Boy ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Peter Segal Description of subject: Peter Segal is an American film director known for mainstream comedies such as "Tommy Boy," "50 First Dates," and "Get Smart."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.