Megan Ellison
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Megan Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Annapurna Pictures, known for backing acclaimed independent and auteur-driven films such as "Her," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "American Hustle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Megan Ellison canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3009756 — 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: Megan Ellison Context triple: [American Hustle, producer, Megan Ellison]
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A.
Amy Pascal
Amy Pascal is an American film producer and former Sony Pictures executive known for overseeing and producing numerous major Hollywood films.
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B.
Thomas Grazer
Thomas Grazer is the son of acclaimed American film and television producer Brian Grazer.
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C.
Jane Kurson
Jane Kurson is a film editor best known for her work on the 1988 fantasy-comedy film "Beetlejuice."
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D.
Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing major blockbuster films such as Jurassic World and the Avatar sequels.
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E.
Amanda Iger
Amanda Iger is one of the children of longtime Disney CEO and media executive Bob Iger.
- 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: Megan Ellison Target entity description: Megan Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Annapurna Pictures, known for backing acclaimed independent and auteur-driven films such as "Her," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "American Hustle."
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A.
Amy Pascal
Amy Pascal is an American film producer and former Sony Pictures executive known for overseeing and producing numerous major Hollywood films.
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B.
Thomas Grazer
Thomas Grazer is the son of acclaimed American film and television producer Brian Grazer.
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C.
Jane Kurson
Jane Kurson is a film editor best known for her work on the 1988 fantasy-comedy film "Beetlejuice."
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D.
Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing major blockbuster films such as Jurassic World and the Avatar sequels.
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E.
Amanda Iger
Amanda Iger is one of the children of longtime Disney CEO and media executive Bob Iger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century American cinema ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Picture nomination (as producer of American Hustle)
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Academy Award for Best Picture nomination (as producer of Her) ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture nomination (as producer of Zero Dark Thirty) ⓘ |
| businessModel | financing and producing prestige films ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Annapurna Pictures ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film production ⓘ |
| founded | Annapurna Pictures ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
arthouse film
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independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Megan ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| influenced | independent film financing landscape in Hollywood ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with auteur filmmakers
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supporting risk-taking projects in Hollywood ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Megan Ellison self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing independent films
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supporting auteur-driven cinema ⓘ |
| notableProject | financing director-driven projects ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Hustle
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Foxcatcher ⓘ Her ⓘ Lawless ⓘ Spring Breakers ⓘ The Grandmaster ⓘ The Master ⓘ Zero Dark Thirty (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
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| occupation |
businessperson
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film producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of Annapurna Pictures ⓘ |
| relative |
David Ellison
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Larry Ellison ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Megan Ellison Description of subject: Megan Ellison is an American film producer and founder of Annapurna Pictures, known for backing acclaimed independent and auteur-driven films such as "Her," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "American Hustle."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Detroit (2017 film)