Seth Gordon
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Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seth Gordon canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597775 — 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: Seth Gordon Context triple: [Horrible Bosses, director, Seth Gordon]
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A.
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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B.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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C.
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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D.
Noah Mendelsohn
Noah Mendelsohn is a computer scientist and software architect known for his influential work on web standards and leadership within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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E.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
- 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: Seth Gordon Target entity description: Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
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A.
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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B.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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C.
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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D.
Noah Mendelsohn
Noah Mendelsohn is a computer scientist and software architect known for his influential work on web standards and leadership within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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E.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Atypical
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Baywatch (2017 film) ⓘ Breaking In ⓘ Four Christmases ⓘ Horrible Bosses ⓘ Identity Thief ⓘ Sneaky Pete ⓘ The Goldbergs ⓘ The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters ⓘ |
| familyName | Gordon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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television ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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documentary film ⓘ |
| givenName | Seth ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Seth Gordon self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing comedy films
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directing documentary films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Atypical
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Baywatch (2017 film) ⓘ Breaking In ⓘ Four Christmases ⓘ Horrible Bosses ⓘ Identity Thief ⓘ Sneaky Pete ⓘ The Goldbergs ⓘ The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Seth Gordon Description of subject: Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bobby Pellitt