David Moscow
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David Moscow is an American actor best known for playing the young version of Tom Hanks’s character Josh Baskin in the 1988 film "Big."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Moscow canonical | 9 |
| David Moscow as young Josh Baskin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12893243 — 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: David Moscow Context triple: [David Moscow as young Josh Baskin, portrayedBy, David Moscow]
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A.
Vladimir Koren
Vladimir Koren was a designer best known for creating the iconic state emblem of the Soviet Union.
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B.
Mark Naimark
Mark Naimark was a Soviet mathematician known for his influential work in functional analysis and operator algebras.
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C.
Alec Miloslavsky
Alec Miloslavsky is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
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D.
Moris Slobodskoy
Moris Slobodskoy was a Soviet screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1969 comedy film "The Diamond Arm."
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E.
Eddie Gorodetsky
Eddie Gorodetsky is an American television writer and producer known for his work on popular sitcoms such as "Two and a Half Men," "The Big Bang Theory," and "Mom."
- 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: David Moscow Target entity description: David Moscow is an American actor best known for playing the young version of Tom Hanks’s character Josh Baskin in the 1988 film "Big."
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A.
Vladimir Koren
Vladimir Koren was a designer best known for creating the iconic state emblem of the Soviet Union.
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B.
Mark Naimark
Mark Naimark was a Soviet mathematician known for his influential work in functional analysis and operator algebras.
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C.
Alec Miloslavsky
Alec Miloslavsky is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
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D.
Moris Slobodskoy
Moris Slobodskoy was a Soviet screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1969 comedy film "The Diamond Arm."
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E.
Eddie Gorodetsky
Eddie Gorodetsky is an American television writer and producer known for his work on popular sitcoms such as "Two and a Half Men," "The Big Bang Theory," and "Mom."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Big
ⓘ
From Scratch ⓘ Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves ⓘ Newsies ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Elizabeth Perkins
ⓘ
Robert Loggia ⓘ Tom Hanks ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | From Scratch ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bronx High School of Science
ⓘ
linked to:
The Bronx High School of Science
|
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Moscow ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0608432 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Moscow ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big
ⓘ
From Scratch ⓘ Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves ⓘ Newsies ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| portrayed | young Josh Baskin ⓘ |
| producer | From Scratch ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Kerry Washington ⓘ |
| startTime | 2004 (relationship with Kerry Washington ended) ⓘ |
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: David Moscow Description of subject: David Moscow is an American actor best known for playing the young version of Tom Hanks’s character Josh Baskin in the 1988 film "Big."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.