Nathan Zellner
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Nathan Zellner is an American filmmaker and actor best known for co-writing and co-directing offbeat independent films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel" with his brother David Zellner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathan Zellner canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13146230 — 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: Nathan Zellner Context triple: [David Zellner, sibling, Nathan Zellner]
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A.
David Zellner
David Zellner is an American independent filmmaker and actor known for his offbeat, character-driven films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel."
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B.
Justin O. Zimmer
Justin O. Zimmer was an American orthopedic industry pioneer and entrepreneur who founded the medical device company that became Zimmer Biomet.
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C.
Luke Zettlemoyer
Luke Zettlemoyer is a prominent computer scientist and natural language processing researcher known for his work on deep learning models for language, including co-developing the ELMo contextual word representation.
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D.
Zach Baylin
Zach Baylin is an American screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed sports dramas such as King Richard and Creed III.
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E.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
- 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: Nathan Zellner Target entity description: Nathan Zellner is an American filmmaker and actor best known for co-writing and co-directing offbeat independent films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel" with his brother David Zellner.
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A.
David Zellner
David Zellner is an American independent filmmaker and actor known for his offbeat, character-driven films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel."
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B.
Justin O. Zimmer
Justin O. Zimmer was an American orthopedic industry pioneer and entrepreneur who founded the medical device company that became Zimmer Biomet.
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C.
Luke Zettlemoyer
Luke Zettlemoyer is a prominent computer scientist and natural language processing researcher known for his work on deep learning models for language, including co-developing the ELMo contextual word representation.
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D.
Zach Baylin
Zach Baylin is an American screenwriter best known for his work on acclaimed sports dramas such as King Richard and Creed III.
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E.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| coDirected |
Damsel
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | David Zellner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Damsel
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| director |
David Zellner
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David Zellner ⓘ Nathan Zellner ⓘ Nathan Zellner ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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independent cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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independent film ⓘ offbeat film ⓘ |
| hasRole |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Damsel
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Zellner Brothers ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Zellner
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David Zellner ⓘ Nathan Zellner ⓘ Nathan Zellner ⓘ |
| sibling | David Zellner ⓘ |
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: Nathan Zellner Description of subject: Nathan Zellner is an American filmmaker and actor best known for co-writing and co-directing offbeat independent films such as "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" and "Damsel" with his brother David Zellner.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nathan Zellner
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Nathan Zellner
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Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Nathan Zellner
subject linked to:
Zellner Brothers