Don Phillips
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Don Phillips was an American film producer and casting director known for his work on influential films such as *Dazed and Confused* and *Fast Times at Ridgemont High*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Phillips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355613 — 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: Don Phillips Context triple: [The Indian Runner, producer, Don Phillips]
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A.
Tedd Munchak
Tedd Munchak was an American businessman best known for owning the Carolina Cougars franchise in the former American Basketball Association.
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B.
Bill Davis
Bill Davis was a notable individual significant enough in his community or region to have the William G. Davis Trail named in his honor.
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C.
Keith Duplessis
Keith Duplessis is a songwriter and music producer best known for his work on Christina Aguilera’s hit single "Dirrty."
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D.
Gerald Hagey
Gerald Hagey was a Canadian academic and administrator best known as the founding president who led the development of the University of Waterloo into a major institution.
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E.
Earle Page
Earle Page was an Australian politician, leader of the Country Party, and briefly the 11th Prime Minister of Australia in 1939.
- 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: Don Phillips Target entity description: Don Phillips was an American film producer and casting director known for his work on influential films such as *Dazed and Confused* and *Fast Times at Ridgemont High*.
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A.
Tedd Munchak
Tedd Munchak was an American businessman best known for owning the Carolina Cougars franchise in the former American Basketball Association.
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B.
Bill Davis
Bill Davis was a notable individual significant enough in his community or region to have the William G. Davis Trail named in his honor.
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C.
Keith Duplessis
Keith Duplessis is a songwriter and music producer best known for his work on Christina Aguilera’s hit single "Dirrty."
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D.
Gerald Hagey
Gerald Hagey was a Canadian academic and administrator best known as the founding president who led the development of the University of Waterloo into a major institution.
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E.
Earle Page
Earle Page was an Australian politician, leader of the Country Party, and briefly the 11th Prime Minister of Australia in 1939.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
casting director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
coming-of-age films
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teen films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
casting ensemble teen and youth-oriented films
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discovering and casting emerging young actors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
Cameron Crowe
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Richard Linklater ⓘ |
| notableFor | influential casting choices in 1980s and 1990s American cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Time to Kill
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linked to:
A Time to Kill (novel)
Dazed and Confused ⓘ Dazed and Confused (casting) ⓘ Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ Fast Times at Ridgemont High (casting) ⓘ Melvin and Howard ⓘ Rebel Highway ⓘ The Game ⓘ The Indian Runner ⓘ The Wanderers ⓘ Tigerland ⓘ |
| occupation |
casting director
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film producer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
A Time to Kill
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Dazed and Confused ⓘ Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ Melvin and Howard ⓘ Rebel Highway ⓘ The Game ⓘ The Indian Runner ⓘ The Wanderers ⓘ Tigerland ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Don Phillips Description of subject: Don Phillips was an American film producer and casting director known for his work on influential films such as *Dazed and Confused* and *Fast Times at Ridgemont High*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.