Mark Waters
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Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Waters canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3760449 — 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: Mark Waters Context triple: [Mean Girls (2004 film), director, Mark Waters]
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A.
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
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B.
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
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C.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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D.
Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman is an American film director, producer, choreographer, and television personality known for movies like "Hairspray" and for his work on popular dance and talent shows.
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E.
Karey Kirkpatrick
Karey Kirkpatrick is an American screenwriter and director known for his work on animated and family films such as Chicken Run, Over the Hedge, and Smallfoot.
- 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: Mark Waters Target entity description: Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
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A.
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer known for his influential work in modern comedy films and television series such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up," and "Freaks and Geeks."
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B.
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas Stoller is a British-American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing and writing popular comedy films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors.
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C.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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D.
Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman is an American film director, producer, choreographer, and television personality known for movies like "Hairspray" and for his work on popular dance and talent shows.
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E.
Karey Kirkpatrick
Karey Kirkpatrick is an American screenwriter and director known for his work on animated and family films such as Chicken Run, Over the Hedge, and Smallfoot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Freaky Friday
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linked to:
Freaky Friday (1995 film)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ⓘ Head Over Heels ⓘ Just Like Heaven ⓘ Mean Girls ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (2004 film)
Mr. Popper's Penguins ⓘ The House of Yes ⓘ The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ Vampire Academy ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy comedy film
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teen comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing fantasy comedies
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directing teen comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Freaky Friday
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linked to:
Freaky Friday (1995 film)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ⓘ Just Like Heaven ⓘ Mean Girls ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (2004 film)
Mr. Popper's Penguins ⓘ The Spiderwick Chronicles ⓘ Vampire Academy ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sibling | Daniel Waters ⓘ |
| spouse | Dina Spybey ⓘ |
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: Mark Waters Description of subject: Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.