Stephen Herek
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Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Herek canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303404 — 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: Stephen Herek Context triple: [Mr. Holland's Opus, director, Stephen Herek]
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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C.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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D.
Eric Strobel
Eric Strobel is a former American ice hockey forward best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team that won gold in Lake Placid.
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E.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
- 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: Stephen Herek Target entity description: Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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C.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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D.
Eric Strobel
Eric Strobel is a former American ice hockey forward best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team that won gold in Lake Placid.
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E.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
101 Dalmatians (1996 film)
NERFINISHED
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A Country Christmas Story NERFINISHED ⓘ A Sort of Homecoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ Critters NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Like Me: Life After Death NERFINISHED ⓘ Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Holy Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Blue 2: The Reef NERFINISHED ⓘ Jinxed NERFINISHED ⓘ Life or Something Like It NERFINISHED ⓘ Man of the House (2005 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Holland's Opus NERFINISHED ⓘ Picture This NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chaperone NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fighting Temptations NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Gilly Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mighty Ducks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Musketeers (1993 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Herek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkDirected |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ family film ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
NERFINISHED
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Mr. Holland's Opus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mighty Ducks NERFINISHED ⓘ directing popular Hollywood comedies and family films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| name | Stephen Herek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
NERFINISHED
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Mr. Holland's Opus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mighty Ducks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Stephen Herek Description of subject: Stephen Herek is an American film director known for popular movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "The Mighty Ducks," and "Mr. Holland's Opus."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure