Mike Tollin
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Mike Tollin is an American film and television producer and director known for sports-themed projects such as "Coach Carter," "Radio," and the TV series "Smallville."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Tollin canonical | 9 |
| Michael Tollin | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5914199 — 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: Mike Tollin Context triple: [Cuts, executiveProducer, Mike Tollin]
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A.
Mike Jost
Mike Jost is a musician best known as the drummer for the punk rock band Helmet.
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B.
Steve Golin
Steve Golin was an American film and television producer and founder of the production company Anonymous Content, known for backing acclaimed projects such as "Spotlight," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and numerous award-winning TV series.
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C.
Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels is an American television writer, producer, and director best known for adapting and developing hit comedy series such as the U.S. version of The Office and co-creating Parks and Recreation and King of the Hill.
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D.
Nick Peretti
Nick Peretti is a determined New York City detective from the film "New Jack City" who relentlessly pursues drug lord Nino Brown.
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E.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
- 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: Mike Tollin Target entity description: Mike Tollin is an American film and television producer and director known for sports-themed projects such as "Coach Carter," "Radio," and the TV series "Smallville."
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A.
Mike Jost
Mike Jost is a musician best known as the drummer for the punk rock band Helmet.
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B.
Steve Golin
Steve Golin was an American film and television producer and founder of the production company Anonymous Content, known for backing acclaimed projects such as "Spotlight," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and numerous award-winning TV series.
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C.
Greg Daniels
Greg Daniels is an American television writer, producer, and director best known for adapting and developing hit comedy series such as the U.S. version of The Office and co-creating Parks and Recreation and King of the Hill.
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D.
Nick Peretti
Nick Peretti is a determined New York City detective from the film "New Jack City" who relentlessly pursues drug lord Nino Brown.
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E.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Brian Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Tollin/Robbins Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Hardball
NERFINISHED
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Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ Summer Catch NERFINISHED ⓘ Varsity Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Tollin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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sports media ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre | sports drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Mike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
sports-themed films
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sports-themed television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mike Tollin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All That
NERFINISHED
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Arli$$ NERFINISHED ⓘ Coach Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobra Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Burger NERFINISHED ⓘ Hardball NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Radio ⓘ Smallville NERFINISHED ⓘ Summer Catch NERFINISHED ⓘ Varsity Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| produced |
All That
NERFINISHED
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Arli$$ NERFINISHED ⓘ Coach Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobra Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Burger NERFINISHED ⓘ Hardball NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ Smallville NERFINISHED ⓘ Summer Catch NERFINISHED ⓘ Varsity Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mike Tollin Description of subject: Mike Tollin is an American film and television producer and director known for sports-themed projects such as "Coach Carter," "Radio," and the TV series "Smallville."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michael Tollin
this entity surface form:
Michael Tollin
this entity surface form:
Michael Tollin