Tony DiTerlizzi
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Tony DiTerlizzi is an American fantasy artist and author best known for co-creating and illustrating the children’s book series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony DiTerlizzi canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660905 — 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)
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Target entity: Tony DiTerlizzi Context triple: [The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008 film), basedOnWorkBy, Tony DiTerlizzi]
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Inkheart trilogy.
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C.
Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick is an American author and illustrator best known for his innovative, cinematic illustrated novels for children, including *The Invention of Hugo Cabret*.
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D.
Lane Smith
Lane Smith was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, including portrayals of authoritative and often gruff figures.
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E.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
- 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: Tony DiTerlizzi Target entity description: Tony DiTerlizzi is an American fantasy artist and author best known for co-creating and illustrating the children’s book series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Inkheart trilogy.
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C.
Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick is an American author and illustrator best known for his innovative, cinematic illustrated novels for children, including *The Invention of Hugo Cabret*.
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D.
Lane Smith
Lane Smith was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, including portrayals of authoritative and often gruff figures.
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E.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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fantasy artist ⓘ human ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Caldecott Honor ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Holly Black ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's book illustration
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children's fiction ⓘ fantasy art ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Tony ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
creator of fantasy worlds
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illustrator of children's books ⓘ writer of children's books ⓘ |
| illustratorOf | The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tony DiTerlizzi ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-creating The Spiderwick Chronicles with Holly Black ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Hero for WondLa
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Kenny & the Dragon ⓘ The Battle for WondLa ⓘ The Search for WondLa ⓘ The Spider and the Fly ⓘ The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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author ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Tony DiTerlizzi Description of subject: Tony DiTerlizzi is an American fantasy artist and author best known for co-creating and illustrating the children’s book series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.