Scott Waugh
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Scott Waugh is an American film director and former stunt performer best known for helming high-octane action movies such as Act of Valor and Need for Speed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Waugh canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2199258 — 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: Scott Waugh Context triple: [Need for Speed (2014 film), director, Scott Waugh]
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A.
Martin McGrath
Martin McGrath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1991 Australian film "Proof."
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B.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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D.
Scott Hipwell
Scott Hipwell is a key character in Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller "The Girl on the Train," portrayed as the enigmatic husband of Megan Hipwell whose behavior and secrets fuel the novel’s central mystery.
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E.
Geordie Greig
Geordie Greig is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known for leading major UK titles including the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
- 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: Scott Waugh Target entity description: Scott Waugh is an American film director and former stunt performer best known for helming high-octane action movies such as Act of Valor and Need for Speed.
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A.
Martin McGrath
Martin McGrath is a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1991 Australian film "Proof."
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B.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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D.
Scott Hipwell
Scott Hipwell is a key character in Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller "The Girl on the Train," portrayed as the enigmatic husband of Megan Hipwell whose behavior and secrets fuel the novel’s central mystery.
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E.
Geordie Greig
Geordie Greig is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known for leading major UK titles including the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ stunt performer ⓘ |
| activeInField | film industry ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Act of Valor
ⓘ
Need for Speed ⓘ
linked to:
Need for Speed (2014 film)
|
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
ⓘ
film production ⓘ stunt performance ⓘ |
| genre | action film ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
action movies
ⓘ
stunt-driven productions ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | high-octane action movies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
military-themed action film Act of Valor
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video game adaptation film Need for Speed ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Act of Valor
ⓘ
Need for Speed ⓘ
linked to:
Need for Speed (video game series)
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| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ stunt performer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedAs | stunt performer in Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Scott Waugh Description of subject: Scott Waugh is an American film director and former stunt performer best known for helming high-octane action movies such as Act of Valor and Need for Speed.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Expendables
subject linked to:
Dust to Glory (2005 film)
subject linked to:
Dust to Glory (2005 film)