Steve Hickner
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Steve Hickner is an American animation director best known for co-directing the DreamWorks animated film "Bee Movie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Hickner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7918069 — 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: Steve Hickner Context triple: [Bee Movie, director, Steve Hickner]
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A.
Bill Hickman
Bill Hickman was an American stunt driver, stunt coordinator, and character actor best known for his high-speed car chase work in classic films such as Bullitt, The French Connection, and The Seven-Ups.
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B.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
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C.
Chris Bilheimer
Chris Bilheimer is an American graphic designer best known for creating album artwork for bands such as Green Day and R.E.M.
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D.
Kevin Nolting
Kevin Nolting is an American film editor best known for his work on Pixar animated features, including the Academy Award-winning film "Up."
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E.
Justin Elicker
Justin Elicker is an American politician who serves as the mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, known for his focus on urban development, education, and social equity.
- 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: Steve Hickner Target entity description: Steve Hickner is an American animation director best known for co-directing the DreamWorks animated film "Bee Movie."
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A.
Bill Hickman
Bill Hickman was an American stunt driver, stunt coordinator, and character actor best known for his high-speed car chase work in classic films such as Bullitt, The French Connection, and The Seven-Ups.
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B.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
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C.
Chris Bilheimer
Chris Bilheimer is an American graphic designer best known for creating album artwork for bands such as Green Day and R.E.M.
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D.
Kevin Nolting
Kevin Nolting is an American film editor best known for his work on Pixar animated features, including the Academy Award-winning film "Up."
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E.
Justin Elicker
Justin Elicker is an American politician who serves as the mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, known for his focus on urban development, education, and social equity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animation director
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| coDirected | Bee Movie ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| directed |
Bee Movie
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The Prince of Egypt ⓘ |
| director |
Steve Hickner
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Steve Hickner ⓘ |
| employer | DreamWorks Animation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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film direction ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | animated films ⓘ |
| industry | animation industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | Bee Movie ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEmployer | DreamWorks Animation ⓘ |
| occupation |
animation director
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film director ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bee Movie
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The Prince of Egypt ⓘ |
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: Steve Hickner Description of subject: Steve Hickner is an American animation director best known for co-directing the DreamWorks animated film "Bee Movie."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.