Dan Scanlon
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Dan Scanlon is an American filmmaker and animator best known for his work as a director and writer at Pixar Animation Studios.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Scanlon canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T614930 — 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: Dan Scanlon Context triple: [Monsters University, director, Dan Scanlon]
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A.
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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B.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
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C.
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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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Seth Gordon
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."
- 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: Dan Scanlon Target entity description: Dan Scanlon is an American filmmaker and animator best known for his work as a director and writer at Pixar Animation Studios.
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A.
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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B.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
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C.
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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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Seth Gordon
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Monsters University
ⓘ
Onward ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbus College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| employer | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| familyName | Scanlon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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computer-animated films ⓘ |
| genre |
animated film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Dan ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing Pixar feature films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Dan Scanlon ⓘ |
| notableEmployer | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Monsters University
ⓘ
Onward ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| workLocation | Emeryville, California ⓘ |
| writerOf |
Monsters University
ⓘ
Onward ⓘ |
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: Dan Scanlon Description of subject: Dan Scanlon is an American filmmaker and animator best known for his work as a director and writer at Pixar Animation Studios.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.