Tom Ortenberg
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Tom Ortenberg is an American film executive and distributor known for leading companies like Open Road Films and playing a key role in releasing numerous acclaimed independent and studio movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Ortenberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4750030 — 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: Tom Ortenberg Context triple: [Gully, producer, Tom Ortenberg]
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A.
Barry Eisenberg
Barry Eisenberg is the father of former child actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg, known for her Pepsi commercials and film roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Alan Baumgarten
Alan Baumgarten is an American film editor known for his work on a variety of feature films and television projects.
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C.
Benny Horowitz
Benny Horowitz is an American drummer best known for his work with the New Jersey rock band The Gaslight Anthem.
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D.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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E.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
- 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: Tom Ortenberg Target entity description: Tom Ortenberg is an American film executive and distributor known for leading companies like Open Road Films and playing a key role in releasing numerous acclaimed independent and studio movies.
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A.
Barry Eisenberg
Barry Eisenberg is the father of former child actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg, known for her Pepsi commercials and film roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Alan Baumgarten
Alan Baumgarten is an American film editor known for his work on a variety of feature films and television projects.
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C.
Benny Horowitz
Benny Horowitz is an American drummer best known for his work with the New Jersey rock band The Gaslight Anthem.
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D.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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E.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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film distributor ⓘ film executive ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Open Road Films ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
independent films
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studio films ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
film acquisition
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film distribution strategy ⓘ film marketing ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
releasing acclaimed independent movies
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releasing acclaimed studio movies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distribution of independent films
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distribution of studio films ⓘ leadership at Open Road Films ⓘ |
| notableRole | film distribution executive ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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film distributor ⓘ film executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of Open Road Films ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Tom Ortenberg Description of subject: Tom Ortenberg is an American film executive and distributor known for leading companies like Open Road Films and playing a key role in releasing numerous acclaimed independent and studio movies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Gully"