Simon Wells
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Simon Wells is a British film director and animator known for his work on major animated features such as The Prince of Egypt and for directing live-action films like The Time Machine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Wells canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11328849 — 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: Simon Wells Context triple: [The Prince of Egypt, director, Simon Wells]
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A.
Nick Willis
Nick Willis is a New Zealand middle-distance runner best known for his Olympic medals in the 1500 metres and long-standing national records.
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B.
Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton is a British actor best known for playing Simon Templar in the late-1980s television films of "The Saint."
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C.
Simon Larbalestier
Simon Larbalestier is a British photographer best known for his surreal, atmospheric imagery on album covers, particularly for the alternative rock band Pixies.
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D.
Ben Shephard
Ben Shephard is a British television presenter best known for hosting shows such as ITV's "Good Morning Britain" and the game show "Tipping Point."
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E.
Simon Attwell
Simon Attwell is a musician best known as a member of the South African Afro-fusion band Freshlyground, contributing on instruments such as flute and saxophone.
- 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: Simon Wells Target entity description: Simon Wells is a British film director and animator known for his work on major animated features such as The Prince of Egypt and for directing live-action films like The Time Machine.
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A.
Nick Willis
Nick Willis is a New Zealand middle-distance runner best known for his Olympic medals in the 1500 metres and long-standing national records.
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B.
Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton is a British actor best known for playing Simon Templar in the late-1980s television films of "The Saint."
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C.
Simon Larbalestier
Simon Larbalestier is a British photographer best known for his surreal, atmospheric imagery on album covers, particularly for the alternative rock band Pixies.
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D.
Ben Shephard
Ben Shephard is a British television presenter best known for hosting shows such as ITV's "Good Morning Britain" and the game show "Tipping Point."
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E.
Simon Attwell
Simon Attwell is a musician best known as a member of the South African Afro-fusion band Freshlyground, contributing on instruments such as flute and saxophone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| directed |
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
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Balto ⓘ The Prince of Egypt ⓘ The Time Machine ⓘ We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story ⓘ
linked to:
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
|
| employer |
Amblimation
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DreamWorks Animation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
ⓘ
Balto ⓘ The Prince of Egypt ⓘ The Time Machine ⓘ We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story ⓘ
linked to:
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
|
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
animated feature film
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live-action feature film ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ storyboard artist ⓘ |
| relative |
H. G. Wells
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linked to:
Herbert George Wells
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| workedOn |
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
ⓘ
Balto ⓘ The Prince of Egypt ⓘ The Time Machine ⓘ We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story ⓘ
linked to:
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
|
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: Simon Wells Description of subject: Simon Wells is a British film director and animator known for his work on major animated features such as The Prince of Egypt and for directing live-action films like The Time Machine.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.