Dean Parisot
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Dean Parisot is an American film and television director best known for directing the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" and the action-comedy sequel "Red 2."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dean Parisot canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8037660 — 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: Dean Parisot Context triple: [Sally Menke, spouse, Dean Parisot]
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A.
Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma is a Hall of Fame college basketball coach renowned for building the University of Connecticut women’s program into a dominant national powerhouse with multiple NCAA championships.
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B.
Jim Cavanaugh
Jim Cavanaugh is an American businessman and aviation enthusiast best known as the founder of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, which preserves and displays historic aircraft.
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C.
Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott was an Australian-born American actor of the silent film era, known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema.
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D.
John Melfi
John Melfi is an American television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as "Sex and the City," "House of Cards," and "Rome."
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E.
Dan Hurley
Dan Hurley is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team to multiple NCAA championships.
- 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: Dean Parisot Target entity description: Dean Parisot is an American film and television director best known for directing the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" and the action-comedy sequel "Red 2."
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A.
Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma is a Hall of Fame college basketball coach renowned for building the University of Connecticut women’s program into a dominant national powerhouse with multiple NCAA championships.
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B.
Jim Cavanaugh
Jim Cavanaugh is an American businessman and aviation enthusiast best known as the founder of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, which preserves and displays historic aircraft.
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C.
Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott was an Australian-born American actor of the silent film era, known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema.
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D.
John Melfi
John Melfi is an American television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed series such as "Sex and the City," "House of Cards," and "Rome."
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E.
Dan Hurley
Dan Hurley is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team to multiple NCAA championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Galaxy Quest
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Red 2 ⓘ |
| director |
Dean Parisot
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Dean Parisot ⓘ |
| genre |
action comedy film
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science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
action comedy film
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comedy film ⓘ science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Dean ⓘ |
| name | Dean Parisot ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Galaxy Quest
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Red 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
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: Dean Parisot Description of subject: Dean Parisot is an American film and television director best known for directing the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" and the action-comedy sequel "Red 2."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dean Parisot
subject linked to:
Dean Parisot
subject linked to:
Alexander Dane is a classically trained actor resentful of his TV role