Nat Faxon
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Nat Faxon is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "The Descendants" and co-directing character-driven comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nat Faxon canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3240143 — 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: Nat Faxon Context triple: [Downhill, director, Nat Faxon]
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A.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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B.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker best known for his Academy Award–nominated portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in the film "The Social Network."
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C.
Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including prominent roles in "Pride & Prejudice," "Succession," and various British dramas.
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D.
Colin Ford
Colin Ford is an American actor known for his roles in projects such as "We Bought a Zoo," "Under the Dome," and voicing the title character in the animated series "Jake and the Never Land Pirates."
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E.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
- 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: Nat Faxon Target entity description: Nat Faxon is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "The Descendants" and co-directing character-driven comedies.
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A.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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B.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker best known for his Academy Award–nominated portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in the film "The Social Network."
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C.
Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including prominent roles in "Pride & Prejudice," "Succession," and various British dramas.
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D.
Colin Ford
Colin Ford is an American actor known for his roles in projects such as "We Bought a Zoo," "Under the Dome," and voicing the title character in the animated series "Jake and the Never Land Pirates."
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E.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Descendants ⓘ |
| coDirected |
Downhill
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The Way Way Back ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Jim Rash ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote | The Descendants ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hamilton College ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Nathaniel ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Arthur in Our Flag Means Death
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Ben Fox in Ben and Kate ⓘ Elfo in Disenchantment ⓘ Nick in Friends from College ⓘ Russ Bowman in Married ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | character-driven comedies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Nat Faxon self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ben and Kate
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Disenchantment ⓘ Friends from College ⓘ Married (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Married
Our Flag Means Death ⓘ The Descendants ⓘ The Way Way Back ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: Nat Faxon Description of subject: Nat Faxon is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director known for co-writing the Oscar-winning film "The Descendants" and co-directing character-driven comedies.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Descendants (film)