Richard Koufey
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Richard Koufey is the eccentric, fictional dance leader portrayed by actor and director Spike Jonze, best known for leading the impromptu dance troupe in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” music video.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Koufey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3960618 — 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: Richard Koufey Context triple: [Praise You music video, featuresCharacter, Richard Koufey]
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A.
Richard Brestoff
Richard Brestoff is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the Steve Martin comedy "The Man with Two Brains."
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B.
Anthony Kilhoffer
Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
- 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: Richard Koufey Target entity description: Richard Koufey is the eccentric, fictional dance leader portrayed by actor and director Spike Jonze, best known for leading the impromptu dance troupe in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” music video.
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A.
Richard Brestoff
Richard Brestoff is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in film and television, including an appearance in the Steve Martin comedy "The Man with Two Brains."
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B.
Anthony Kilhoffer
Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dance leader
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsInMusicVideo |
Praise You
ⓘ
surface form:
“Praise You”
|
| associatedWithArtist | Fatboy Slim ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Praise You
ⓘ
surface form:
“Praise You” music video
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Spike Jonze ⓘ |
| describedAs |
eccentric
ⓘ
fictional dance leader ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Fatboy Slim – “Praise You” ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
choreographed street performance
ⓘ
public dancing ⓘ |
| leadsGroup | The Torrance Community Dance Group ⓘ |
| medium | music video ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading an impromptu dance troupe in the “Praise You” music video ⓘ |
| notableWork | “Praise You” performance in front of a movie theater ⓘ |
| occupation | dance leader ⓘ |
| partOf |
Weapon of Choice (Fatboy Slim music video)
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surface form:
Fatboy Slim videography
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| portrayedBy | Spike Jonze ⓘ |
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: Richard Koufey Description of subject: Richard Koufey is the eccentric, fictional dance leader portrayed by actor and director Spike Jonze, best known for leading the impromptu dance troupe in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” music video.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Praise You music video