Morgan Spurlock
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Morgan Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker best known for directing and starring in the fast-food exposé film "Super Size Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Morgan Spurlock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7560666 — 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: Morgan Spurlock Context triple: [Morgan, hasNotableBearer, Morgan Spurlock]
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A.
Ed Horowitz
Ed Horowitz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "Exit Wounds."
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B.
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director best known for his politically charged, multi-narrative films such as "Traffic" and "Syriana."
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C.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author known for his provocative, politically charged films critiquing social and economic issues in the United States.
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D.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore was an American actor active in mid-20th-century film and television, known for supporting roles in movies such as the World War II drama "Stalag 17."
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E.
Mark Waters
Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
- 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: Morgan Spurlock Target entity description: Morgan Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker best known for directing and starring in the fast-food exposé film "Super Size Me."
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A.
Ed Horowitz
Ed Horowitz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "Exit Wounds."
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B.
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director best known for his politically charged, multi-narrative films such as "Traffic" and "Syriana."
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C.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker and author known for his provocative, politically charged films critiquing social and economic issues in the United States.
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D.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore was an American actor active in mid-20th-century film and television, known for supporting roles in movies such as the World War II drama "Stalag 17."
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E.
Mark Waters
Mark Waters is an American film director best known for helming popular teen and fantasy comedies such as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created | Morgan Spurlock Inside Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-11-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2024-05-23 ⓘ |
| directed |
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
NERFINISHED
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One Direction: This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Size Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest Movie Ever Sold NERFINISHED ⓘ Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | New York University Tisch School of the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Spurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreFocus | documentary film ⓘ |
| givenName | Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Laken James Spurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Morgan Spurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | fast-food industry exposé in Super Size Me ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
NERFINISHED
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Morgan Spurlock Inside Man NERFINISHED ⓘ One Direction: This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Size Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest Movie Ever Sold NERFINISHED ⓘ Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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documentary filmmaker ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television presenter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alex Jamieson
NERFINISHED
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Sara Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredIn | Super Size Me 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: Morgan Spurlock Description of subject: Morgan Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker best known for directing and starring in the fast-food exposé film "Super Size Me."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.