Jon Turteltaub
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Jon Turteltaub is an American film director and producer known for helming popular mainstream movies such as the National Treasure series, Cool Runnings, and While You Were Sleeping.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jon Turteltaub canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6965006 — 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: Jon Turteltaub Context triple: [National Treasure, director, Jon Turteltaub]
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A.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a prolific American film and television producer known for high-octane blockbusters such as Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the CSI franchise.
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B.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is a prominent American music video and film director known for his visually dynamic, high-concept work with major pop and hip-hop artists.
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C.
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.
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D.
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye is an American film executive and producer best known as the founder of New Line Cinema, which he built into a major independent movie studio.
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E.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- 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: Jon Turteltaub Target entity description: Jon Turteltaub is an American film director and producer known for helming popular mainstream movies such as the National Treasure series, Cool Runnings, and While You Were Sleeping.
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A.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer is a prolific American film and television producer known for high-octane blockbusters such as Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the CSI franchise.
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B.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is a prominent American music video and film director known for his visually dynamic, high-concept work with major pop and hip-hop artists.
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C.
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.
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D.
Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye is an American film executive and producer best known as the founder of New Line Cinema, which he built into a major independent movie studio.
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E.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| almaMater |
USC School of Cinematic Arts
NERFINISHED
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Wesleyan University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-08-08 ⓘ |
| directed |
3 Ninjas
NERFINISHED
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Cool Runnings NERFINISHED ⓘ Instinct NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ National Treasure NERFINISHED ⓘ National Treasure: Book of Secrets NERFINISHED ⓘ Phenomenon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Meg NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice NERFINISHED ⓘ While You Were Sleeping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedTelevision |
Harper’s Island
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Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Turteltaub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | mainstream Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing commercially successful studio films ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Jon Turteltaub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cool Runnings
NERFINISHED
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National Treasure NERFINISHED ⓘ National Treasure: Book of Secrets NERFINISHED ⓘ Phenomenon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Meg NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice NERFINISHED ⓘ While You Were Sleeping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| parent | Saul Turteltaub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Amy Eldon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWithStudio |
Touchstone Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 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: Jon Turteltaub Description of subject: Jon Turteltaub is an American film director and producer known for helming popular mainstream movies such as the National Treasure series, Cool Runnings, and While You Were Sleeping.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.