David Cross
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David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Cross canonical | 52 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713074 — 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 Cross Context triple: [Arrested Development, stars, David Cross]
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A.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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B.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Bill Burr
Bill Burr is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster known for his abrasive, observational humor and candid takes on social and cultural issues.
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D.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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E.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
- 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 Cross Target entity description: David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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A.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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B.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Bill Burr
Bill Burr is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster known for his abrasive, observational humor and candid takes on social and cultural issues.
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D.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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E.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Cross Description of subject: David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film 'I'm Not There'
subject linked to:
Fünke
subject linked to:
School for Scoundrels