Charlie Bean
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Charlie Bean is an American animator, storyboard artist, and film director known for his work on animated projects including co-directing *The Lego Ninjago Movie*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charlie Bean canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3536862 — 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: Charlie Bean Context triple: [The Lego Ninjago Movie, director, Charlie Bean]
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A.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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B.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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C.
Charlie
Charlie is Dory’s loving but forgetful father in the animated film "Finding Dory," known for his patience, optimism, and inventive ways of helping her cope with memory loss.
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D.
Charlie Allnut
Charlie Allnut is the rough-edged but good-hearted Canadian boat captain from the classic film "The African Queen," known for his unlikely partnership and romance with a prim missionary during World War I.
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E.
Billy Twillig
Billy Twillig is the precocious teenage mathematical prodigy who serves as the central figure in Don DeLillo’s experimental science-fiction novel "Ratner’s Star."
- 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: Charlie Bean Target entity description: Charlie Bean is an American animator, storyboard artist, and film director known for his work on animated projects including co-directing *The Lego Ninjago Movie*.
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A.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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B.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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C.
Charlie
Charlie is Dory’s loving but forgetful father in the animated film "Finding Dory," known for his patience, optimism, and inventive ways of helping her cope with memory loss.
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D.
Charlie Allnut
Charlie Allnut is the rough-edged but good-hearted Canadian boat captain from the classic film "The African Queen," known for his unlikely partnership and romance with a prim missionary during World War I.
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E.
Billy Twillig
Billy Twillig is the precocious teenage mathematical prodigy who serves as the central figure in Don DeLillo’s experimental science-fiction novel "Ratner’s Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coDirected | The Lego Ninjago Movie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animated films
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television animation ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | animation ⓘ |
| isHuman | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Lego Ninjago Movie ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| workFocus | animated projects ⓘ |
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: Charlie Bean Description of subject: Charlie Bean is an American animator, storyboard artist, and film director known for his work on animated projects including co-directing *The Lego Ninjago Movie*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lego film franchise