David Frankel
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David Frankel is an American film and television director best known for helming popular works such as "The Devil Wears Prada" and episodes of "Sex and the City."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Frankel canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107776 — 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 Frankel Context triple: [The Devil Wears Prada, director, David Frankel]
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A.
Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlon is an American filmmaker and animator best known for his work as a director and writer at Pixar Animation Studios.
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B.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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C.
Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
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D.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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E.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
- 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 Frankel Target entity description: David Frankel is an American film and television director best known for helming popular works such as "The Devil Wears Prada" and episodes of "Sex and the City."
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A.
Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlon is an American filmmaker and animator best known for his work as a director and writer at Pixar Animation Studios.
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B.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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C.
Seth Gordon
Seth Gordon is an American film and television director known for his work on comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
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D.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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E.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Hope Springs
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Jerry & Marge Go Large ⓘ Marley & Me ⓘ Miami Rhapsody ⓘ One Chance ⓘ The Devil Wears Prada ⓘ episodes of Band of Brothers ⓘ episodes of Entourage ⓘ
linked to:
Entourage
episodes of From the Earth to the Moon ⓘ episodes of Sex and the City ⓘ
linked to:
Sex and the City (TV series)
|
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing episodes of acclaimed television series
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directing popular studio comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Band of Brothers
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Entourage ⓘ From the Earth to the Moon ⓘ Hope Springs ⓘ Jerry & Marge Go Large ⓘ Marley & Me ⓘ Miami Rhapsody ⓘ One Chance ⓘ Sex and the City ⓘ
linked to:
Sex and the City (TV series)
The Devil Wears Prada ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
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 Frankel Description of subject: David Frankel is an American film and television director best known for helming popular works such as "The Devil Wears Prada" and episodes of "Sex and the City."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.