Gary Weis
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Gary Weis is an American film and television director best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" short films and various music videos in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Weis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9465438 — 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: Gary Weis Context triple: [Got My Mind Set on You, musicVideoDirector, Gary Weis]
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A.
Gary Langan
Gary Langan is a British recording engineer and record producer known for his work with The Buggles, Art of Noise, and numerous influential pop and rock artists.
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B.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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C.
Steve Mirkovich
Steve Mirkovich is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the teen slasher hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
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D.
Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf was an American composer, arranger, and musical director best known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Rick Fehr
Rick Fehr is an American professional golfer who competed primarily on the PGA Tour, earning multiple victories during the 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Gary Weis Target entity description: Gary Weis is an American film and television director best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" short films and various music videos in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Gary Langan
Gary Langan is a British recording engineer and record producer known for his work with The Buggles, Art of Noise, and numerous influential pop and rock artists.
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B.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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C.
Steve Mirkovich
Steve Mirkovich is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the teen slasher hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
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D.
Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf was an American composer, arranger, and musical director best known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Rick Fehr
Rick Fehr is an American professional golfer who competed primarily on the PGA Tour, earning multiple victories during the 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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music video director ⓘ person ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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music video ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing music videos in the 1970s and 1980s
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directing short films for Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Saturday Night Live short films
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linked to:
Saturday Night Live digital shorts
music videos ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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music video director ⓘ 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: Gary Weis Description of subject: Gary Weis is an American film and television director best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" short films and various music videos in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.