Ted Berman
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Ted Berman was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions during the studio’s classic and transitional eras.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Berman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609900 — 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: Ted Berman Context triple: [The Black Cauldron, director, Ted Berman]
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A.
Phillip Berman
Phillip Berman is a writer best known for coauthoring the spiritual and philosophical work "Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey" with primatologist Jane Goodall.
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B.
Mitch Kertzman
Mitch Kertzman is an American technology executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles in the software and semiconductor industries, including at companies like LSI Logic and Sybase.
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C.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
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D.
Ted Krovetz
Ted Krovetz is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on authenticated encryption and contributions to practical cryptographic algorithms and standards.
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E.
John Heyman
John Heyman was a British film and television producer and financier known for backing and producing a range of notable international films from the 1960s onward.
- 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: Ted Berman Target entity description: Ted Berman was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions during the studio’s classic and transitional eras.
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A.
Phillip Berman
Phillip Berman is a writer best known for coauthoring the spiritual and philosophical work "Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey" with primatologist Jane Goodall.
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B.
Mitch Kertzman
Mitch Kertzman is an American technology executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles in the software and semiconductor industries, including at companies like LSI Logic and Sybase.
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C.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
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D.
Ted Krovetz
Ted Krovetz is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on authenticated encryption and contributions to practical cryptographic algorithms and standards.
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E.
John Heyman
John Heyman was a British film and television producer and financier known for backing and producing a range of notable international films from the 1960s onward.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American animator
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American film director ⓘ animator ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| industry |
animation
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film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Disney’s classic and transitional eras
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directing animated feature films ⓘ work at Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| name | Ted Berman ⓘ |
| notableEmployer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Black Cauldron
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The Fox and the Hound ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ |
| workLocation | Burbank, California ⓘ |
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: Ted Berman Description of subject: Ted Berman was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions during the studio’s classic and transitional eras.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.