Ira Wright
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Ira Wright is a struggling young stand-up comedian and aspiring writer portrayed by Seth Rogen in the 2009 Judd Apatow film "Funny People."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ira Wright canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3858968 — 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: Ira Wright Context triple: [Funny People, mainCharacter, Ira Wright]
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A.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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B.
Ibram Henry Rogers
Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
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C.
Cordell Broadus
Cordell Broadus is an American former college football player and entrepreneur best known as the son of rapper Snoop Dogg and for his appearances on the reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood."
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D.
Tyrone S. Woods
Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
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E.
Jelani Kilpatrick
Jelani Kilpatrick is known as one of the sons of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
- 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: Ira Wright Target entity description: Ira Wright is a struggling young stand-up comedian and aspiring writer portrayed by Seth Rogen in the 2009 Judd Apatow film "Funny People."
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A.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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B.
Ibram Henry Rogers
Ibram Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, is an American historian, author, and leading scholar of antiracism and race studies.
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C.
Cordell Broadus
Cordell Broadus is an American former college football player and entrepreneur best known as the son of rapper Snoop Dogg and for his appearances on the reality show "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood."
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D.
Tyrone S. Woods
Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
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E.
Jelani Kilpatrick
Jelani Kilpatrick is known as one of the sons of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Funny People ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Judd Apatow ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Judd Apatow ⓘ |
| filmGenreOfWork | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| filmWriterOfWork | Judd Apatow ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Ira Wright self-link ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| isStrugglingArtist | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livesWith |
Leo Koenig
ⓘ
Mark Taylor Jackson ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| mentorIs | George Simmons ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
aspiring writer
ⓘ
stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| partOf | Funny People cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Seth Rogen ⓘ |
| portrayedByNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| portrayedByOccupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Daisy Danby ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| worksWith |
George Simmons
ⓘ
Leo Koenig ⓘ Mark Taylor Jackson ⓘ |
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: Ira Wright Description of subject: Ira Wright is a struggling young stand-up comedian and aspiring writer portrayed by Seth Rogen in the 2009 Judd Apatow film "Funny People."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.