Chris Weitz
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Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Weitz canonical | 42 |
| Chris Weitz (uncredited/production involvement context)? | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499192 — 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: Chris Weitz Context triple: [A Single Man, producer, Chris Weitz]
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Dede Gardner
Dede Gardner is an Academy Award–winning American film producer and co-president of Plan B Entertainment, known for producing acclaimed films such as "Selma," "12 Years a Slave," and "Moonlight."
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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E.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
- 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: Chris Weitz Target entity description: Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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A.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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B.
Dede Gardner
Dede Gardner is an Academy Award–winning American film producer and co-president of Plan B Entertainment, known for producing acclaimed films such as "Selma," "12 Years a Slave," and "Moonlight."
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C.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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D.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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E.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Chris Weitz Description of subject: Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Down to Earth
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Off Centre (TV series)
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Off Centre (TV series)
Chris Rock as Mays Gilliam
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Chris Weitz (uncredited/production involvement context)?
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linked to: Chris Weitz