Jared Hess
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Jared Hess is an American filmmaker best known for directing quirky comedy films such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jared Hess canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906752 — 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: Jared Hess Context triple: [Nacho Libre, director, Jared Hess]
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A.
Dean Fleischer-Camp
Dean Fleischer-Camp is an American filmmaker and editor best known for co-creating the stop-motion character and film series "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On."
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B.
Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is an American film producer best known for his work on popular 1980s and 1990s genre films, including collaborations with director Joe Dante.
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C.
Garret Dillahunt
Garret Dillahunt is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in television series such as Deadwood, Justified, Raising Hope, and Fear the Walking Dead.
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D.
Gavin Strick
Gavin Strick is the central teenage protagonist of the thriller film "Disturbing Behavior," who becomes entangled in uncovering a sinister conspiracy affecting his high school classmates.
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E.
Brendan Hunt
Brendan Hunt is an American actor, writer, and comedian best known for co-creating and starring in the acclaimed television series "Ted Lasso."
- 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: Jared Hess Target entity description: Jared Hess is an American filmmaker best known for directing quirky comedy films such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
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A.
Dean Fleischer-Camp
Dean Fleischer-Camp is an American filmmaker and editor best known for co-creating the stop-motion character and film series "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On."
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B.
Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is an American film producer best known for his work on popular 1980s and 1990s genre films, including collaborations with director Joe Dante.
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C.
Garret Dillahunt
Garret Dillahunt is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in television series such as Deadwood, Justified, Raising Hope, and Fear the Walking Dead.
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D.
Gavin Strick
Gavin Strick is the central teenage protagonist of the thriller film "Disturbing Behavior," who becomes entangled in uncovering a sinister conspiracy affecting his high school classmates.
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E.
Brendan Hunt
Brendan Hunt is an American actor, writer, and comedian best known for co-creating and starring in the acclaimed television series "Ted Lasso."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| collaboratesWith | Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWroteWith |
Chris Bowman
NERFINISHED
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Hubbel Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed |
Don Verdean
NERFINISHED
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Gentlemen Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Masterminds NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacho Libre NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ Peluca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Jared Hess
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brigham Young University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jared NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | independent cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deadpan humor
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quirky comedy style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Don Verdean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gentlemen Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Masterminds NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacho Libre NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jared Hess
NERFINISHED
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Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Don Verdean
NERFINISHED
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Gentlemen Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacho Libre NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite 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: Jared Hess Description of subject: Jared Hess is an American filmmaker best known for directing quirky comedy films such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.