John
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John Lasseter is an American animator, director, and producer best known for his pioneering work at Pixar and his role in revolutionizing computer-animated films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2125111 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John Lasseter, givenName, John]
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John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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John
John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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John
John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John Lasseter is an American animator, director, and producer best known for his pioneering work at Pixar and his role in revolutionizing computer-animated films.
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John
John is the given name of John McCarthy, the American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and was a pioneer in the field.
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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John
John is the given name of John R. Pierce, an American engineer and scientist known for his pioneering work in communications and satellite technology.
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John
John is the first name of American comedian and actor Will Ferrell, known for his work on Saturday Night Live and numerous comedy films.
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John
John is the given first name of J. Michael Bishop, the American immunologist and Nobel Prize–winning scientist known for his work on oncogenes.
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Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animator
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business executive ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Annie Award ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film ⓘ Academy Award for Special Achievement ⓘ
surface form:
Special Achievement Academy Award
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | California Institute of the Arts ⓘ |
| employer |
Pixar Animation Studios
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Skydance Animation ⓘ Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ |
| familyName |
John Lasseter
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surface form:
Lasseter
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| fieldOfWork |
animated feature films
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computer animation ⓘ |
| genre |
animated film
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comedy film ⓘ family film ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding creative leadership at Pixar
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directing Toy Story ⓘ pioneering work in computer-animated films ⓘ revitalizing feature animation at Disney through Pixar collaboration ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | John Lasseter ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bug's Life
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Cars ⓘ Cars 2 ⓘ Luxo Jr. ⓘ Red's Dream ⓘ Tin Toy ⓘ Toy Story ⓘ Toy Story 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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business executive ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios
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Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios ⓘ Head of Animation at Skydance Animation ⓘ Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John Lasseter is an American animator, director, and producer best known for his pioneering work at Pixar and his role in revolutionizing computer-animated films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.