Josh Srebnick
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Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josh Srebnick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2461569 — 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: Josh Srebnick Context triple: [While We're Young, hasCharacter, Josh Srebnick]
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A.
Matt Weitzman
Matt Weitzman is an American television writer and producer best known as a co-creator and executive producer of the animated series "American Dad!"
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Scott Budnick
Scott Budnick is an American film producer best known for his work on hit comedies like "The Hangover" and for his later activism in criminal justice reform.
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D.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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E.
Ryan Roslansky
Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, known for leading the professional networking platform’s product and business strategy.
- 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: Josh Srebnick Target entity description: Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
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A.
Matt Weitzman
Matt Weitzman is an American television writer and producer best known as a co-creator and executive producer of the animated series "American Dad!"
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Scott Budnick
Scott Budnick is an American film producer best known for his work on hit comedies like "The Hangover" and for his later activism in criminal justice reform.
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D.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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E.
Ryan Roslansky
Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, known for leading the professional networking platform’s product and business strategy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | middle-aged ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
While We’re Young
ⓘ
surface form:
While We're Young
|
| centralThemeRelation |
creative integrity
ⓘ
intergenerational relationships ⓘ midlife crisis ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | younger creative couple ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Noah Baumbach ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | documentary filmmaker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ben Stiller ⓘ |
| spouse | Cornelia ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
aging
ⓘ
ambition ⓘ authenticity ⓘ |
| workTitle |
While We’re Young
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surface form:
While We're Young
|
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: Josh Srebnick Description of subject: Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
While We're Young