Phil Weston
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Phil Weston is the neurotic, well-meaning dad who becomes an overzealous youth soccer coach in the family sports comedy film "Kicking & Screaming."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phil Weston canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3630381 — 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: Phil Weston Context triple: [Kicking & Screaming, leadCharacter, Phil Weston]
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A.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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B.
Mel Hunter
Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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D.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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E.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
- 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: Phil Weston Target entity description: Phil Weston is the neurotic, well-meaning dad who becomes an overzealous youth soccer coach in the family sports comedy film "Kicking & Screaming."
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A.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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B.
Mel Hunter
Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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D.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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E.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Kicking & Screaming ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
family comedy
ⓘ
sports comedy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
neurotic
ⓘ
well-meaning ⓘ |
| coaches | youth soccer team ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyFriendly | true ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
family film
ⓘ
sports comedy film ⓘ |
| hasBehavior | overcompetitive coaching style ⓘ |
| hasSport | soccer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
parent-child relationships
ⓘ
youth sports pressure ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Phil Weston ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | youth soccer coach ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Will Ferrell ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | motion picture ⓘ |
| roleInWork | overzealous youth soccer coach ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
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: Phil Weston Description of subject: Phil Weston is the neurotic, well-meaning dad who becomes an overzealous youth soccer coach in the family sports comedy film "Kicking & Screaming."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.