Don Bluth
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Don Bluth is an American animator and film director known for his influential work on animated features such as "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," and "The Land Before Time."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Bluth canonical | 23 |
| Bill Plympton | 1 |
| Don Bluth Entertainment | 1 |
| Donald Bluth | 1 |
| Donald Virgil Bluth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644601 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Bluth Context triple: [California Institute of the Arts, hasAlumnus, Don Bluth]
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Henry Selick
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director and animator best known for directing films such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach," and "Coraline."
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Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
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Kyle Balda
Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director best known for his work on major animated features at Illumination Entertainment, including co-directing films such as The Lorax and Minions.
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Roger Allers
Roger Allers is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for co-directing Disney’s acclaimed animated feature "The Lion King."
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John Lasseter
John Lasseter is an American animator, director, and producer best known as a pioneering creative force behind Pixar’s early success and the director of landmark films like Toy Story.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Bluth Target entity description: Don Bluth is an American animator and film director known for his influential work on animated features such as "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," and "The Land Before Time."
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A.
Henry Selick
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director and animator best known for directing films such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach," and "Coraline."
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B.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
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C.
Kyle Balda
Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director best known for his work on major animated features at Illumination Entertainment, including co-directing films such as The Lorax and Minions.
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D.
Roger Allers
Roger Allers is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for co-directing Disney’s acclaimed animated feature "The Lion King."
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E.
John Lasseter
John Lasseter is an American animator, director, and producer best known as a pioneering creative force behind Pixar’s early success and the director of landmark films like Toy Story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Don Bluth Description of subject: Don Bluth is an American animator and film director known for his influential work on animated features such as "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," and "The Land Before Time."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Don Bluth
linked to: Don Bluth
subject linked to:
1997 animated film "Anastasia"
subject linked to:
The Land Before Time (1988 animated film)
subject linked to:
The Land Before Time (1988 animated film)
subject linked to:
The Land Before Time (1988 animated film)
linked to: Don Bluth
subject linked to:
An American Tail (1986 film)