Kyle Balda
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Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director best known for his work on major animated features at Illumination Entertainment, including co-directing films such as The Lorax and Minions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kyle Balda canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987509 — 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)
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Target entity: Kyle Balda Context triple: [The Lorax (2012 film), coDirector, Kyle Balda]
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A.
Chris Meledandri
Chris Meledandri is an American film producer best known as the founder and CEO of Illumination, the animation studio behind franchises like Despicable Me and Minions.
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B.
Roger Allers
Roger Allers is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for co-directing Disney’s acclaimed animated feature "The Lion King."
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C.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
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D.
Byron Howard
Byron Howard is an American film director, animator, and storyboard artist best known for co-directing acclaimed Walt Disney Animation Studios films such as Tangled, Zootopia, and Encanto.
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E.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
- 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: Kyle Balda Target entity description: Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director best known for his work on major animated features at Illumination Entertainment, including co-directing films such as The Lorax and Minions.
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A.
Chris Meledandri
Chris Meledandri is an American film producer best known as the founder and CEO of Illumination, the animation studio behind franchises like Despicable Me and Minions.
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B.
Roger Allers
Roger Allers is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for co-directing Disney’s acclaimed animated feature "The Lion King."
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C.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky is an acclaimed animator, director, and producer best known for creating influential animated series such as Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.
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D.
Byron Howard
Byron Howard is an American film director, animator, and storyboard artist best known for co-directing acclaimed Walt Disney Animation Studios films such as Tangled, Zootopia, and Encanto.
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E.
Jack Briggs
Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American animator
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American film director ⓘ animator ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| coDirected |
Despicable Me 3
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Minions ⓘ Minions: The Rise of Gru ⓘ The Lorax (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Lorax
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | California Institute of the Arts ⓘ |
| employer |
Illumination Entertainment
ⓘ
Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ
surface form:
Pixar
Weta Digital ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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computer-animated films ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing major animated feature films for Illumination Entertainment ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Despicable Me 3
ⓘ
Minions ⓘ Minions: The Rise of Gru ⓘ The Lorax (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Lorax
|
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
A Bug's Life
ⓘ
Jumanji franchise ⓘ
surface form:
Jumanji
Monsters, Inc. ⓘ The Mask (comic book series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Mask
Toy Story 2 ⓘ |
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: Kyle Balda Description of subject: Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director best known for his work on major animated features at Illumination Entertainment, including co-directing films such as The Lorax and Minions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Minions (2015 film)