Jeff Kanew
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Jeff Kanew is an American film editor and director best known for his work on movies such as "Ordinary People" and "Revenge of the Nerds."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Kanew canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8019941 — 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: Jeff Kanew Context triple: [Ordinary People, editedBy, Jeff Kanew]
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A.
Dave Katz
Dave Katz is an American songwriter and record producer best known as part of the production duo S*A*M & Sluggo, who have worked with numerous pop and rock artists.
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B.
Ron Walotsky
Ron Walotsky was an American fantasy and science fiction artist known for his distinctive, surreal cover illustrations for genre novels and magazines.
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C.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Tokyo Vice," which chronicles his experiences reporting on crime and the yakuza for a major Japanese newspaper.
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D.
David Steinberg
David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer known for his influential stand-up career and for directing numerous episodes of popular television comedies such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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E.
Jason Kliot
Jason Kliot is an American film producer known for his work on independent and documentary films, including the acclaimed Enron exposé "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
- 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: Jeff Kanew Target entity description: Jeff Kanew is an American film editor and director best known for his work on movies such as "Ordinary People" and "Revenge of the Nerds."
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A.
Dave Katz
Dave Katz is an American songwriter and record producer best known as part of the production duo S*A*M & Sluggo, who have worked with numerous pop and rock artists.
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B.
Ron Walotsky
Ron Walotsky was an American fantasy and science fiction artist known for his distinctive, surreal cover illustrations for genre novels and magazines.
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C.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Tokyo Vice," which chronicles his experiences reporting on crime and the yakuza for a major Japanese newspaper.
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D.
David Steinberg
David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer known for his influential stand-up career and for directing numerous episodes of popular television comedies such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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E.
Jason Kliot
Jason Kliot is an American film producer known for his work on independent and documentary films, including the acclaimed Enron exposé "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film editor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Eddie Macon's Run
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Gotcha! ⓘ Natural Enemies ⓘ Revenge of the Nerds ⓘ Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise ⓘ Tough Guys ⓘ Troop Beverly Hills ⓘ |
| edited |
Eddie Macon's Run
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Gotcha! ⓘ Natural Enemies ⓘ Ordinary People ⓘ Revenge of the Nerds ⓘ Tough Guys ⓘ Troop Beverly Hills ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing the comedy film Revenge of the Nerds
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editing the drama film Ordinary People ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Eddie Macon's Run
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Gotcha! ⓘ Natural Enemies ⓘ Ordinary People ⓘ Revenge of the Nerds ⓘ Tough Guys ⓘ Troop Beverly Hills ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ 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: Jeff Kanew Description of subject: Jeff Kanew is an American film editor and director best known for his work on movies such as "Ordinary People" and "Revenge of the Nerds."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.