Tippett
E424850
family name
film director
person
producer
stop-motion animated film
stop-motion animator
surname
visual effects company
visual effects supervisor
Tippett is a surname most notably associated with Phil Tippett, the acclaimed visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator known for his work on films like Star Wars and Jurassic Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tippett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4235152 — 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: Tippett Context triple: [Phil Tippett, familyName, Tippett]
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A.
Tovey
Tovey is an English surname most notably associated with actor Russell Tovey, known for his work in British television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Gillespie
Gillespie is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with American jazz trumpeter and composer Dizzy Gillespie.
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C.
Tullistes
Tullistes are the inhabitants of the French city of Tulle, located in the Corrèze department in central France.
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D.
Tawney
Tawney is an English surname most notably associated with the influential economic historian and social critic R. H. Tawney.
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E.
Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a surname most notably associated with Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer credited with inventing networked email and introducing the "@" symbol in email addresses.
- 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: Tippett Target entity description: Tippett is a surname most notably associated with Phil Tippett, the acclaimed visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator known for his work on films like Star Wars and Jurassic Park.
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A.
Tovey
Tovey is an English surname most notably associated with actor Russell Tovey, known for his work in British television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Gillespie
Gillespie is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with American jazz trumpeter and composer Dizzy Gillespie.
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C.
Tullistes
Tullistes are the inhabitants of the French city of Tulle, located in the Corrèze department in central France.
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D.
Tawney
Tawney is an English surname most notably associated with the influential economic historian and social critic R. H. Tawney.
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E.
Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a surname most notably associated with Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer credited with inventing networked email and introducing the "@" symbol in email addresses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
film director ⓘ person ⓘ producer ⓘ stop-motion animated film ⓘ stop-motion animator ⓘ surname ⓘ visual effects company ⓘ visual effects supervisor ⓘ |
| activeIn | visual effects industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-09-27 ⓘ |
| directed | Mad God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Phil Tippett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Tippett Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Phil Tippett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Phil Tippett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Tippett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creature design
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go motion technique ⓘ stop-motion animation ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableContribution | development of go motion animation ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berkeley, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInFilm |
ED-209 animation on RoboCop
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creature designer on Star Wars films ⓘ dinosaur supervisor on Jurassic Park ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Dragonheart
NERFINISHED
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Jurassic Park NERFINISHED ⓘ RoboCop NERFINISHED ⓘ RoboCop 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ RoboCop 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi NERFINISHED ⓘ Starship Troopers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Saga: New Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Willow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tippett Description of subject: Tippett is a surname most notably associated with Phil Tippett, the acclaimed visual effects supervisor and stop-motion animator known for his work on films like Star Wars and Jurassic Park.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.