Phil Johnston
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Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Johnston canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748796 — 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: Phil Johnston Context triple: [Zootopia, screenwriter, Phil Johnston]
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A.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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B.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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C.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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D.
Don Nicholl
Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Rob Carpenter
Rob Carpenter is a former NFL running back best known for his productive stints with the Houston Oilers and New York Giants in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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: Phil Johnston Target entity description: Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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A.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
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B.
Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on landmark BBC natural history documentaries.
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C.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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D.
Don Nicholl
Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Rob Carpenter
Rob Carpenter is a former NFL running back best known for his productive stints with the Houston Oilers and New York Giants in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| co-directedWith | Rich Moore ⓘ |
| co-wroteWith |
Byron Howard
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Jared Bush ⓘ Rich Moore ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ |
| genre |
animated films
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comedy films ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-directing the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet
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co-writing the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet ⓘ co-writing the animated film Wreck-It Ralph ⓘ co-writing the animated film Zootopia ⓘ writing the film Cedar Rapids ⓘ writing the film The Brothers Grimsby ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableWork |
Cedar Rapids
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Ralph Breaks the Internet ⓘ Wreck-It Ralph ⓘ Zootopia ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| wrote |
Cedar Rapids
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Ralph Breaks the Internet ⓘ The Brothers Grimsby ⓘ Wreck-It Ralph ⓘ Zootopia ⓘ |
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: Phil Johnston Description of subject: Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.