Daniel Waters
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Daniel Waters is an American screenwriter best known for his sharp, satirical scripts, including the cult classic film "Heathers" and the sci-fi action movie "Demolition Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daniel Waters canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2771189 — 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: Daniel Waters Context triple: [Demolition Man, writer, Daniel Waters]
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A.
Scott Neustadter
Scott Neustadter is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing films such as "(500) Days of Summer," "The Fault in Our Stars," and other adaptations of popular novels.
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B.
Brian Yorkey
Brian Yorkey is an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for co-creating the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical "Next to Normal."
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C.
Jason Beattie
Jason Beattie is a music video director known for his work on the video for the song "Adorn."
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D.
Justin Marks
Justin Marks is an American screenwriter best known for writing Disney's live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book (2016) and other film and television projects.
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E.
Justin Peck
Justin Peck is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for his innovative, contemporary works created primarily for the New York City Ballet.
- 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: Daniel Waters Target entity description: Daniel Waters is an American screenwriter best known for his sharp, satirical scripts, including the cult classic film "Heathers" and the sci-fi action movie "Demolition Man."
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A.
Scott Neustadter
Scott Neustadter is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing films such as "(500) Days of Summer," "The Fault in Our Stars," and other adaptations of popular novels.
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B.
Brian Yorkey
Brian Yorkey is an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for co-creating the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical "Next to Normal."
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C.
Jason Beattie
Jason Beattie is a music video director known for his work on the video for the song "Adorn."
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D.
Justin Marks
Justin Marks is an American screenwriter best known for writing Disney's live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book (2016) and other film and television projects.
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E.
Justin Peck
Justin Peck is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for his innovative, contemporary works created primarily for the New York City Ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film screenwriter ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-11-10 ⓘ |
| directed |
Happy Campers
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Sex and Death 101 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | McGill University ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction action film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cult classic status of Heathers
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sharp satirical scripts ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Batman Returns
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Demolition Man ⓘ Heathers ⓘ Hudson Hawk ⓘ Vampire Academy ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Daniel Waters ⓘ |
| sibling | Mark Waters ⓘ |
| wroteForMedium | film ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Batman Returns
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Demolition Man ⓘ Heathers ⓘ Hudson Hawk ⓘ Vampire Academy ⓘ |
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: Daniel Waters Description of subject: Daniel Waters is an American screenwriter best known for his sharp, satirical scripts, including the cult classic film "Heathers" and the sci-fi action movie "Demolition Man."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Daniel Waters
subject linked to:
Veronica Sawyer in Heathers
subject linked to:
Betty Finn in Heathers
subject linked to:
Betty Finn in Heathers