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This work proposes a practical method for disentangling, i.e., Geometric Manifold Component Estimator (GEOMANCER). GEOMANCER does not learn a global nonlinear embedding, instead, it learns a set of subspaces to assign to each point, where each subspace is the tangent space of one disentangled submanifold. Thus, GEOMANCER can be used to disentangle manifolds for which there may not be a global axis-aligned coordinate system. Experimental results on both synthetic data and Stanford 3D data are included in this paper.