Marc Webb
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Marc Webb is an American filmmaker best known for directing the superhero movies "The Amazing Spider-Man" and its sequel, as well as the romantic drama "(500) Days of Summer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marc Webb canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4709083 — 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: Marc Webb Context triple: [Spider-Man film series, notableDirector, Marc Webb]
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A.
Peyton Reed
Peyton Reed is an American film director known for helming major studio comedies and Marvel superhero films, including entries in the Ant-Man series.
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B.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders is a British film director best known for making his feature debut with the dark fantasy film "Snow White and the Huntsman."
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C.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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D.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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E.
Josh Trank
Josh Trank is an American filmmaker best known for directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" and the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four."
- 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: Marc Webb Target entity description: Marc Webb is an American filmmaker best known for directing the superhero movies "The Amazing Spider-Man" and its sequel, as well as the romantic drama "(500) Days of Summer."
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A.
Peyton Reed
Peyton Reed is an American film director known for helming major studio comedies and Marvel superhero films, including entries in the Ant-Man series.
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B.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders is a British film director best known for making his feature debut with the dark fantasy film "Snow White and the Huntsman."
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C.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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D.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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E.
Josh Trank
Josh Trank is an American filmmaker best known for directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" and the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1974-08-31 ⓘ |
| directed |
(500) Days of Summer
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500 Days of Summer (music videos for associated artists) ⓘ Gifted ⓘ
linked to:
Gifted (2017 film)
The Amazing Spider-Man ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ⓘ The Only Living Boy in New York ⓘ music videos for Evanescence ⓘ music videos for Fergie ⓘ music videos for Green Day ⓘ music videos for Hilary Duff ⓘ music videos for My Chemical Romance ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Colorado College ⓘ |
| familyName | Webb ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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music videos ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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romantic comedy-drama ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| givenName | Marc ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary independent cinema ⓘ |
| knownFor | blending stylized visuals with character-driven storytelling ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Marc Webb ⓘ |
| notableAward | Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials (nomination) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
(500) Days of Summer
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Gifted ⓘ
linked to:
Gifted (2017 film)
The Amazing Spider-Man ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ⓘ The Only Living Boy in New York ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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linked to:
Bloomington, Indiana
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| spouse | Jane Herman ⓘ |
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: Marc Webb Description of subject: Marc Webb is an American filmmaker best known for directing the superhero movies "The Amazing Spider-Man" and its sequel, as well as the romantic drama "(500) Days of Summer."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Uncle Ben Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man
subject linked to:
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (television series)
subject linked to:
I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
subject linked to:
The Ghost of You