Jennifer Yuh Nelson
E685056
Jennifer Yuh Nelson is an American animation director and storyboard artist best known for directing the DreamWorks animated film "Kung Fu Panda 2," making her one of the first women to direct a major Hollywood animated feature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Yuh Nelson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7714510 — 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: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Context triple: [Kung Fu Panda 2, director, Jennifer Yuh Nelson]
-
A.
Jennifer Lien
Jennifer Lien is an American actress best known for her role as Kes on the television series "Star Trek: Voyager."
-
B.
Mia Yoo
Mia Yoo is a theatre director and arts leader best known for heading New York’s influential La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where she champions innovative and international performance.
-
C.
Cathy Shim
Cathy Shim is an American actress, comedian, and writer known for her work in sketch comedy and television, including appearances on shows like Reno 911!.
-
D.
Julia Cho
Julia Cho is an American playwright and screenwriter known for her work on stage and in film, including co-writing Pixar’s animated feature "Turning Red."
-
E.
Ellen Lee Zhou
Ellen Lee Zhou is a conservative social worker and community activist known for her long-shot campaigns for mayor of San Francisco, where she has promoted tough-on-crime and anti-establishment policies.
- 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: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Target entity description: Jennifer Yuh Nelson is an American animation director and storyboard artist best known for directing the DreamWorks animated film "Kung Fu Panda 2," making her one of the first women to direct a major Hollywood animated feature.
-
A.
Jennifer Lien
Jennifer Lien is an American actress best known for her role as Kes on the television series "Star Trek: Voyager."
-
B.
Mia Yoo
Mia Yoo is a theatre director and arts leader best known for heading New York’s influential La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where she champions innovative and international performance.
-
C.
Cathy Shim
Cathy Shim is an American actress, comedian, and writer known for her work in sketch comedy and television, including appearances on shows like Reno 911!.
-
D.
Julia Cho
Julia Cho is an American playwright and screenwriter known for her work on stage and in film, including co-writing Pixar’s animated feature "Turning Red."
-
E.
Ellen Lee Zhou
Ellen Lee Zhou is a conservative social worker and community activist known for her long-shot campaigns for mayor of San Francisco, where she has promoted tough-on-crime and anti-establishment policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
animation director ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in a Feature Production NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jennifer Yuh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-05-07 ⓘ |
| directed |
Kung Fu Panda 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kung Fu Panda 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Darkest Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | California State University, Long Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | DreamWorks Animation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Korean ⓘ |
| familyName | Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
ⓘ
storyboarding ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
animation ⓘ family film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jennifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
animation industry
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the first women to direct a major Hollywood animated feature film
ⓘ
directing Kung Fu Panda 2 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jennifer Yuh Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (for Kung Fu Panda 2, as director of the film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Annie Award for Best Director NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kung Fu Panda 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kung Fu Panda 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Darkest Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
animation director
ⓘ
film director ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Todd Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Kung Fu Panda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 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: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Description of subject: Jennifer Yuh Nelson is an American animation director and storyboard artist best known for directing the DreamWorks animated film "Kung Fu Panda 2," making her one of the first women to direct a major Hollywood animated feature.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.