Coodie Simmons
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Coodie Simmons is an American filmmaker and director best known for his long-term collaboration with Kanye West, including co-directing the documentary series "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coodie & Chike | 2 |
| Coodie Simmons canonical | 2 |
| Coodie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3125656 — 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)
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Target entity: Coodie Simmons Context triple: [Through the Wire, musicVideoDirector, Coodie Simmons]
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A.
Russ Gee
Russ Gee is an automotive designer best known for his work on the iconic Pontiac GTO muscle car.
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B.
Craig Reid
Craig Reid is a Scottish musician and songwriter best known as one half of the folk-rock duo The Proclaimers.
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C.
Juicy J
Juicy J is an American rapper, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, known for his influential role in Southern rap and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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D.
Warryn Campbell
Warryn Campbell is an American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work across hip hop, R&B, and gospel with artists such as Kanye West, Mary Mary, and Alicia Keys.
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E.
Tricky Stewart
Tricky Stewart is an American record producer and songwriter known for crafting numerous chart-topping R&B and pop hits for major artists.
- 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: Coodie Simmons Target entity description: Coodie Simmons is an American filmmaker and director best known for his long-term collaboration with Kanye West, including co-directing the documentary series "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy."
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A.
Russ Gee
Russ Gee is an automotive designer best known for his work on the iconic Pontiac GTO muscle car.
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B.
Craig Reid
Craig Reid is a Scottish musician and songwriter best known as one half of the folk-rock duo The Proclaimers.
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C.
Juicy J
Juicy J is an American rapper, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, known for his influential role in Southern rap and numerous high-profile collaborations.
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D.
Warryn Campbell
Warryn Campbell is an American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work across hip hop, R&B, and gospel with artists such as Kanye West, Mary Mary, and Alicia Keys.
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E.
Tricky Stewart
Tricky Stewart is an American record producer and songwriter known for crafting numerous chart-topping R&B and pop hits for major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coDirectedWith | Chike Ozah ⓘ |
| coDirectorOf | jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Creative Control ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Kanye West ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary filmmaking
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film ⓘ music videos ⓘ |
| genre | documentary film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Coodie
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linked to:
Coodie Simmons
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| hasRole |
cinematographer
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing music-related documentaries
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long-term collaboration with Kanye West ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Coodie Simmons ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Creative Control with Chike Ozah ⓘ |
| notableWork |
documentary projects about hip hop culture
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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy ⓘ music videos for Kanye West ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ producer ⓘ |
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: Coodie Simmons Description of subject: Coodie Simmons is an American filmmaker and director best known for his long-term collaboration with Kanye West, including co-directing the documentary series "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Coodie Simmons
linked to: Coodie Simmons
linked to: Coodie Simmons