Glenn Weiss
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Glenn Weiss is an American television producer and director best known for helming numerous live awards shows, including multiple Academy Awards ceremonies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glenn Weiss canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4156955 — 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: Glenn Weiss Context triple: [92nd Academy Awards, directedBy, Glenn Weiss]
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A.
Steve Yedlin
Steve Yedlin is an American cinematographer known for his long-time collaboration with director Rian Johnson on films such as "Brick," "Looper," and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," as well as for his technical research on film and digital image science.
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B.
Marcus Raboy
Marcus Raboy is an American music video and film director known for his work with major hip-hop and R&B artists.
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C.
Taylor Twellman
Taylor Twellman is a retired American soccer forward best known as a prolific scorer for the New England Revolution and later as a prominent television analyst for ESPN.
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D.
Jason Kreis
Jason Kreis is an American soccer coach and former player best known for leading Real Salt Lake to an MLS Cup title and later managing several Major League Soccer clubs.
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E.
Clint Dempsey
Clint Dempsey is a retired American soccer forward and attacking midfielder, widely regarded as one of the greatest U.S. players of all time for his prolific club career in MLS and the Premier League and his record-tying goal tally with the U.S. national team.
- 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: Glenn Weiss Target entity description: Glenn Weiss is an American television producer and director best known for helming numerous live awards shows, including multiple Academy Awards ceremonies.
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A.
Steve Yedlin
Steve Yedlin is an American cinematographer known for his long-time collaboration with director Rian Johnson on films such as "Brick," "Looper," and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," as well as for his technical research on film and digital image science.
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B.
Marcus Raboy
Marcus Raboy is an American music video and film director known for his work with major hip-hop and R&B artists.
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C.
Taylor Twellman
Taylor Twellman is a retired American soccer forward best known as a prolific scorer for the New England Revolution and later as a prominent television analyst for ESPN.
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D.
Jason Kreis
Jason Kreis is an American soccer coach and former player best known for leading Real Salt Lake to an MLS Cup title and later managing several Major League Soccer clubs.
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E.
Clint Dempsey
Clint Dempsey is a retired American soccer forward and attacking midfielder, widely regarded as one of the greatest U.S. players of all time for his prolific club career in MLS and the Premier League and his record-tying goal tally with the U.S. national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award show director
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human ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Directors Guild of America Award
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | American television networks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live event direction
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television production ⓘ |
| genre |
awards shows
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live television ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing live television award shows
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directing multiple Academy Awards ceremonies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
directed multiple Primetime Emmy Awards broadcasts
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directed multiple Tony Awards broadcasts ⓘ directed the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony ⓘ directed the 2019 Academy Awards ceremony ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Academy Awards ceremony direction
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American Music Awards direction ⓘ BET Awards direction ⓘ Billboard Music Awards direction ⓘ Kennedy Center Honors direction ⓘ MTV Video Music Awards direction ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony direction
Tony Awards ceremony direction ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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stage director ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
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: Glenn Weiss Description of subject: Glenn Weiss is an American television producer and director best known for helming numerous live awards shows, including multiple Academy Awards ceremonies.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
91st Academy Awards
subject surface form:
91st Academy Awards