Weitz
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Weitz is a surname most prominently associated with American filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz, known for movies such as "American Pie" and "About a Boy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weitz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2864911 — 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: Weitz Context triple: [Chris Weitz, familyName, Weitz]
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A.
Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein is an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax Films and Dimension Films, known for producing numerous influential genre and independent movies.
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B.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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C.
Stiller
Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of truly knowing oneself.
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D.
Wilder
Wilder is a common English surname borne by various notable figures in literature, film, and other fields.
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E.
Scheider
Scheider is the surname of American actor Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in the film "Jaws."
- 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: Weitz Target entity description: Weitz is a surname most prominently associated with American filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz, known for movies such as "American Pie" and "About a Boy."
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A.
Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein is an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax Films and Dimension Films, known for producing numerous influential genre and independent movies.
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B.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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C.
Stiller
Stiller is a 1954 novel by Swiss author Max Frisch that explores themes of identity, self-deception, and the impossibility of truly knowing oneself.
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D.
Wilder
Wilder is a common English surname borne by various notable figures in literature, film, and other fields.
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E.
Scheider
Scheider is the surname of American actor Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in the film "Jaws."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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film director ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1965-11-19
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1969-11-30 ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Brian Weitz
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Bruce Weitz ⓘ Chris Weitz ⓘ David A. Weitz ⓘ Eduardo Weitz ⓘ Eric Weitz ⓘ Gideon Weitz ⓘ Hans Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Helmut Weitz ⓘ Jeff Weitz ⓘ John Weitz ⓘ Julius Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristin Weitz ⓘ Mark Weitz ⓘ Morris Weitz ⓘ Paul Weitz (filmmaker) ⓘ
linked to:
Paul Weitz
Rolf Weitz ⓘ Sharon Weitz ⓘ Walter Weitz ⓘ Wolfgang Weitz ⓘ Yechiel Weitz ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Better Life (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Better Life
About a Boy (film) ⓘ
linked to:
About a Boy
Admission (2013 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Admission
American Pie ⓘ In Good Company (2004 film) ⓘ
linked to:
In Good Company
The Golden Compass (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Golden Compass
The Twilight Saga: New Moon ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| sibling |
Chris Weitz
ⓘ
Paul Weitz (filmmaker) ⓘ
linked to:
Paul Weitz
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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: Weitz Description of subject: Weitz is a surname most prominently associated with American filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz, known for movies such as "American Pie" and "About a Boy."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.